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American psychologist and philosopher, Krister Dylan Knapp provides "the first deeply historical and acutely analytical account of James's psychical research."
"While showing that James always maintained a critical stance toward claims of paranormal phenomena like spiritualism, the author uses new sources to argue that psychical research held a strikingly central position in James's life. It was crucial to his familial and professional relationships, the fashioning of his unique intellectual disposition, and the shaping of his core doctrines, especially the will-to-believe, empiricism, fideism, and theories of the subliminal consciousness and immortality."
Dr Knapp is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis.
Author of William James: Psychical Research and the Challenge of Modernity
When
19th July, 2018 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location
In person meeting also available on Zoom. Society for Psychical Research HQ
SPR
1 Vernon Mews
London
W14 0RL
United Kingdom
SPR
1 Vernon Mews
London
W14 0RL
United Kingdom
Contact
Office Phone: 020 7937 8984
Email: [email protected]
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