• DOI:10.1017/S0140525X00054467
Corpus ID: 146395238

Parapsychology: Science of the anomalous or search for the soul?

@article{Alcock1987ParapsychologySO,
  title={Parapsychology: Science of the anomalous or search for the soul?},
  author={J. E. Alcock},
  journal={Behavioral and Brain Sciences},
  year={1987},
  volume={10},
  pages={553-565}
}

J. E. Alcock

Published 1987

Psychology

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Although there has been over a century of formal empirical inquiry, parapsychologists have clearly failed to produce a single reliable demonstration of “paranormal,” or “psi,” phenomena. Although many parapsychological research projects have been carried out under what have been described as well-controlled conditions, this does not by itself make a science, for unless and until it can be demonstrated that paranormal phenomena really exist, there is no subject matter around which a science can… CONTINUE READING

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