Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates emp[...]
The rise of modern science has brought with it increasing acceptance among intellectual elites of a worldview that conflicts sharply both with everyday human experience and with beliefs widely shared among the world's great cultural traditions. Most contemporary scientists and philosophers believe t[...]
First published in the 1970s, this edition has an updated preface that renders the material current. The authors feel that the distribution of voluntary PSI abilities within the general population is far from the bell-shaped or 'normal' curve, and that many of the field's strongest experimental outc[...]