Ghost Hunters: William James and the Hunt for Scientific Proof of Life after Death

393 Pages·2007·1.63 MB·English

by  Deborah Blum

Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication

Chapter 1 - THE NIGHT SIDE
Chapter 2 - A SPIRIT OF UNBELIEF
Chapter 3 - LIGHTS AND SHADOWS
Chapter 4 - METAPHYSICS AND METATROUSERS
Chapter 5 - INFINITE RATIONALITY
Chapter 6 - ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE
Chapter 7 - THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY
Chapter 8 - THE INVENTION OF ECTOPLASM
Chapter 9 - THE UNEARTHLY ARCHIVE
Chapter 10 - A PROPHECY OF DEATH
Chapter 11 - A FORCE NOT GENERALLY RECOGNIZED
Chapter 12 - A GHOST STORY

Acknowledgements
NOTES AND SOURCES
INDEX
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Deborah Blum is a professor of science journalism at the University of
Wisconsin. She worked as a newspaper science writer for fifteen years, winning
the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for her writing about primate research, which she
turned into a book, The Monkey Wars. Her other books include Sex on the Brain
and Love at Goon Park. She has written about scientific research for the Los
Angeles Times, The New York Times, Discover, Health, Psychology Today, and
Mother Jones. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband, two sons, and
a very large boxer.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint selections from the following works:
Materials in the archives of the American Society for Psychical Research, Richard Hodgson
Collection and James H. Hyslop Collection. Used by permissions of the American Society for
Psychical Research, Inc. (ASPR), New York, New York.
Letters of William James in the collection of the Houghton Library (bMS Am 1505 and
bMS Am 1938). By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

eISBN : 978-1-10104253-3
1. James, William, 1842-1910. 2. Parapsychology—History—19th century.
3. Spiritualism—History—19th century. 4. Ghosts. I. Title.
BF1028.B57 2006
133.909’034—dc22 2006044948

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