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Review of 'Education in Parapsychology: Student and Instructor Perspectives' by Harvey Irwin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Book review of Education in Parapsychology: Student and Instructor Perspectives by Harvey Irwin. Foreword by Nancy Zingrone. Gladesville, NSW, Australia: AIPR Mongraphs, 2013. Pp xv + 106. (paperback).
Roe, Chris A, Roe, Chris A; id_orcid
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Archives maudites

open access: yesSocio-anthropologie, 2016
Unique in the history of police, the police officer Émile Tizané (1901-1982) was probably the greatest French expert of “haunted houses”. As a parapsychologist, he traveled the roads of french countryside for several decades to the needs of its informal ...
Philippe Baudouin
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Poetic Confluence: The Social Organization of a Telepathic Experience

open access: yesJournal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2022
This paper is an exploratory sociological analysis of poetic confluence, a spontaneous telepathic phenomenon that occurs in everyday social interaction.
Robin Wooffitt
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Transnational Quaker pacifism and the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. A qualitative case study of two network nodes connecting Finland to Scandinavia and the Anglo‐Saxon world 1919–1961

open access: yesPeace &Change, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 242-261, July 2024.
Abstract In this article, I will ask, how the international networks of peace movements have influenced the development of Quaker pacifism in Fenno‐Scandinavia. The question is answered with qualitative social network analysis when analyzing the vocational development of two Quaker network nodes, Greta Langenskjöld (1889–1975) and Deryck Sivén (1913 ...
Rony Ojajärvi
wiley   +1 more source

Response to: Brief Comments on “Siddhis and Psi Research: An Interdisciplinary Analysis”

open access: yesJournal of World Philosophies, 2017
In his brief comments on “Siddhis and Psi Research: An Interdisciplinary Analysis,” Ed Kelly expresses disappointment that the paper does not mirror his worldview, which includes questioning the reality of psi—especially precognition, accepting post ...
SONALI BHATT MARWAHA
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Quantum Measurement as Pragmatic Information Transfer: Observer Effects on (S)objective Reality Formation

open access: yesJournal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2022
Objective. In the research presented here, quantum measurement is conceptualized as pragmatic information transfer when an intentional observer perceives motive-relevant quantum-based outcomes. Owing to the nature of pragmatic information as described in
Markus A. Maier   +2 more
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Ethnography vs. zombie methodologies

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 164-170, February 2024.
Abstract Beginning in 2011, public scandals and high‐visibility critiques of research methods in psychology fed a broader “replication crisis”: foundational experiments could not be replicated, and statistical methods in social psychology demonstrated vulnerability to fraud and manipulation.
Greg Downey
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Feyerabend, Pluralism, and Parapsychology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Feyerabend is well-known as a pluralist, and notorious for his defences of, and sympathetic references to, heterodox subjects, such as parapsychology. Focusing on the latter, I ask how we should understand the relationship between the pluralism and the ...
Kidd, Ian James
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The Ethics of Belief in Paranormal Phenomena

open access: yesJournal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2022
The philosophical school of Evidentialism holds that people should form, amend, and relinquish a belief wholly in accordance with the available evidence for that belief.
Harvey J. Irwin   +2 more
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Rudolph Hermann Lotze's philosophically informed psychology

open access: yesJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 60, Issue 1, Winter 2024.
Abstract This essay deals with four main topics: the notion of philosophical psychology; the idea that physical events and mental events cannot be compared to one another; psychophysical mechanism; and the theory of local signs. These are all key elements in the Medicinische Psychologie of Rudolph Hermann Lotze (1817‒1881). By philosophical psychology,
Michele Vagnetti
wiley   +1 more source

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