The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science

Braude, Stephen E.

ISBN 10: 0710205562 / ISBN 13: 9780710205568

Published by Routledge & K. Paul, NY, 1986

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Small stain to inner rear flap of dust jacket, now in protective mylar. Inscribed by author to previous owner. 311pp. Seller Inventory # 019431

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Title: The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and ...

Publisher: Routledge & K. Paul, NY

Publication Date: 1986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Inscribed By Author

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

Levitations, materializations, healings, earthquake-like rocking. The evidence of large scale spontaneous psychokinesis through history is a neglected and unjustly maligned aspect of the science of parapsychology. In "The Limits of Influence" Stephen E. Braude argues that the familiar card-guessing experiments and statistical proofs' of PSI will never elicit important or revealing facts about the phenomena. Instead he turns our attention to the substantial (if sometimes bizarre) qualitative evidence. Not only does this pose no threat to the fabric of science, but it holds out hope for substantial progress in psychology, as well as in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mind which have so far have failed to solve fundamental problems of consciousness and intentionality. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of philosophy and psychology.

About the Author:

Stephen E. Braude is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. He is also the author of First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind, Revised Edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995).