Encounters With the Paranormal
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Encounters With the Paranormal

Best of Skeptical Inquirer

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Encounters With the Paranormal

Best of Skeptical Inquirer

About this book

Do polygraph tests really detect lies? Can memories be implanted? Is subliminal perception a reality? What is the relationship between science and belief?Experts in the fields of physical/biological science, psychology, philosophy, social science, and forensic science bring their perspectives to controversies that affect the way we think and how we perceive reality and the natural world. From science's influence on beauty to antiscience in our universities and from UFO mythologies to near-death experiences, this volume spans the gamut of pseudoscience today.Contributors include James Alcock, Susan Blackmore, Alan Cromer, Mandy Fowler, Christopher C. French, Martin Gardner, Thomas Gilovich, Theodore Goertzel, Paul R. Gross, Peter Huston, Ray Hyman, Noretta Koertge, Paul Kurtz, Dan Larhammar, Leon M. Lederman, James Lett, Norman Levitt, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Elizabeth Loftus, Lee Loevinger, Katy McCarthy, Joe Nickell, Bernard Oritz de Montellano, Debbie Peers, Anthony Pratkanis, Carl Sagan, Kenneth Savitsky, Glenn Seaborg, Elie Shneour, Matthew Smith, Victor Stenger, Jeffrey F. Victor, Jeff Wiseman, and Richard Wiseman.

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. PART ONE: SCIENCE, IMAGINATION, AND RESPONSIBILITY
  3. PART TWO: SCIENCE AND ANTISCIENCE
  4. PART THREE: SCIENCE, PSEUDOSCIENCE, AND PATHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
  5. PART FOUR: PSEUDOSCIENCE AND PATHOLOGICAL CULTS: HEAVEN’S GATE
  6. PART FIVE: SCIENCE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BELIEF
  7. PART SIX: PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CLAIMS OF PSI
  8. PART SEVEN: PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANOMALOUS EXPERIENCE
  9. PART EIGHT: SOCIAL DYNAMICS AND BELIEF
  10. PART NINE: THE MALLEABILITY OF MEMORY
  11. Recommended Reading
  12. Contributors