Philosophical Interactions With Parapsychology: The Major Writings of H H Price on Parapsychology and Survival (Library of Philosophy and Religion (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England).)

This is a collection of the most important writings of Oxford philosopher H.H. Price on the topics of psychical research and survival of death, collected from a wide variety of sources unavailable to most interested readers. Included are discussions of telepathy, clairvoyance, telekinesis, precognition, hauntings and apparitions, the impact of psychical research on western philosophy and science, and what afterlife is probably like. Few twentieth century English-speaking philosophers have written much on these topics. Of those who did so and whose writings have not been collected and published in a single source, H.H. Price was the most important. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Some Aspects of the Conflict between Science and Religion....Pages 3-16 Haunting and the ‘Psychic Ether’ Hypothesis — I....Pages 17-34 Some Philosophical Questions about Telepathy and Clairvoyance....Pages 35-60 Mind Over Mind and Mind Over Matter....Pages 61-76 Four Book Reviews....Pages 77-124 The Philosophical Implications of Precognition....Pages 125-139 Paranormal Cognition and Symbolism....Pages 140-160 Haunting and the ‘Psychic Ether’ Hypothesis — II....Pages 161-181 Apparitions: Two Theories....Pages 182-199 Front Matter....Pages 201-201 Mediumship and Human Survival....Pages 203-220 The Problem of Life After Death....Pages 221-236 Survival and the Idea of ‘Another World’....Pages 237-262 What Kind of a ‘Next World’?....Pages 263-269 Comments on Ducasse on Survival....Pages 270-290 Back Matter....Pages 291-294 "Many western philosophers have claimed that there are no psychical powers, that the human being is simply an advanced form of matter, that the world has no purpose, and that the very notion that a person could survive the death of the physical body is not just false but nonsensical. H. H. Price is an important English philosopher who did not share these views." "If it should be true that we have psychical powers, and Price was convinced that we do, this has very important implications for human nature and destiny - we have souls, there is some purpose to the features of nature, and this life may be just a portion of the process of soul-building that is our destiny. H. H. Price is widely credited as being the first, modern western philosopher to develop a coherent picture of what the life beyond might look like."--BOOK JACKET A collection of the writings of Oxford philosopher H.H. Price on psychical research and survival of death. It includes discussions of: telepathy, clairvoyance, telekinesis, afterlife, precognition, hauntings and apparitions, and the impact of psychical research on western philosophy and science.