10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARASCIENCE»
Discover the use of
parascience in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
parascience and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Parascience Pack: An Interactive Exploration of Your Psi Powers
World-famous psychic Geller developed this interactive exploration of psychic powers. Pack includes dowsing rods, rock crystals, paper umbrella, picture cards, and paper sculptures.
Uri Geller, Ron Van der Meer,
2000
2
Science and
Parascience: A History of the Paranormal, 1914-1939
The author takes historical evidence of the paranormal between the wars and feels that research done then, should be reconsidered in the light of modern scientific foundations.
THE NUMBERS and eminence of interested scientists has always been one of
the strongest planks upon which psychical researchers base their claims that
parascience is not only a serious subject worth investigating, but has been
repeatedly ...
4
Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries: ...
Besides, it is often not easy to delimit exactly and beyond any doubt the frontiers
of science from parascience and science fiction. The transition between the
former and the two latter is often very subtle and delicate to the extent that
sometimes ...
Dieter Kastovsky, Aleksander Szwedek,
1986
5
Alien Worlds: Social and Religious Dimensions of ...
In turn, this new analysis contributed to a new definition within sociology
applicable to both science and parascience. Thus, historians and sociologists of
science also have come to focus on controversies over scientific anomalies and
to some ...
6
Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from ...
Paratechnology and Parascience The constructivist definition of science and
scientism highlights a vast gray zone, where entire fields of activity are included
as scientific by the New Age camp and excluded by the academic camp. These
will ...
7
General Philosophy of Science: Focal Issues: Focal Issues
... humanities Pseudo- technology Para- technics Para- humanities Sci ence Non
sci ence Technics Ordinary Knowl edge Para- science s.s. Reliable Knowledge
Parascience s.l. Illusory Knowledge Figure 4. An extended typology of epistemic
...
Does 'evidence' have such power to persuade even within conventional scientific
work, let alone in parascience? Is it necessary first partly to alter one's thinking in
order to be able to admit or experience the evidence, rather than vice versa?
... 109 http://www.parascience.org.uk/articles/time.htm 110 http://icliverpool.
icnetwork.co.uk/0300whatson/0800events/2003/10/30/
letsdotimewarpagain5006113572570/ 111 http://www.parascience.org.uk/articles
/time.htm ...
10
Science and Anti-science
The tolerance of impersonality is at the very heart of conventional science; but it
is anathema from the point of view of parascience, with its celebratory focus on
the personal, its introduction of "consciousness" even into the atom, and other ...
Gerald James Holton,
1993
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARASCIENCE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
parascience is used in the context of the following news items.
Weirdness Explained: Spontaneous Human Combustion at MUFON …
Arnold has pursued the SHC phenomenon since the late 70's, leaving an engineering career to found ParaScience International to research ... «Mainline Today, Jun 15»
What's on TV Friday
5:30 P.M. (Oxygen) GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) This story of parascience eggheads turned saviors of mankind debuted to unenthusiastic reviews: ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
The Anti-Science Views of the Left and Right
... anti-vaccination and anti-genetically modified foods dogma, to global warming “alarmism,” fracking, and a whole host of parascience beliefs. «Slate Magazine, Feb 15»
Haunted attractions promise to entertain, frighten all ages
Evans Mills resident George D. Stadalski, who hosts a weekly Internet radio show, “Parascience Journal,” has been invited to conduct a ... «WatertownDailyTimes.com, Oct 14»
Haunted History
In fact, Smith is a member of a parascience organization full of chemists and programmers who develop new equipment for use in the field of ... «Cincinnati CityBeat, Oct 13»
Susan B. Martinez on 'The Lost History of The Little People'
(tentatively titled Out of the Box, in which I take a shot at the Standard Models of science and even parascience, rebutting Big Bang, Ice Age, ... «Examiner.com, May 13»
Parascience Expert Visits Where Local Man Burned
A researcher with ParaScience International flew to Oklahoma this week to get more information on a suspicious death in Sequoyah County. «5NEWSOnline.com - Ft. Smith, Fayetteville, Bentonville News & Weather - KFSM KXNW Television, Mar 13»
After 'New Atheism', let's re-humanise humanism
... defence of human subjectivity against the 'parascience' of the New Atheists). But Tallis insists that the burden of proof lies on the believers: to ... «Spiked, Nov 12»
Richard Grossinger on universal consciousness in 'Dark Pool Of …
... the scientific and philosophical, analytical views of reality, exploring the science, parascience, philosophy, and psychology of consciousness. «Examiner.com, Oct 12»
Unverified Results: The History of Scientific Research into ESP
... the International Kirlian Research Association, the Institute of Parascience, and the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory ... «io9, Mar 12»