The Limits of Influence

Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science

By: Stephen E. Braude

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Paperback | 26 December 1996 | Edition Number 2

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The Limits of Influence is a detailed examination and defense of the evidence for largescale-psychokinesis (PK). It examines the reasons why experimental evidence has not, and perhaps cannot, convince most skeptics that PK is genuine, and it considers why traditional experimental procedures are important to reveal interesting facts about the phenomena. It then examines why PK does not pose a clear threat to the very fabric of science, as many have supposed. The major skeptical challenges to taking large-scale PK seriously and the reason why those challenges are all unsatisfactory are considered. The evidence examined most closely is the turn-of-the-century evidence for physical mediumship, with special attention given to the cases of D.D. Home and Eusapia Palladino. The author compares and evaluates the leading theories of apparitions and considers the extent to which the evidence for collective apparitions can be interpreted as a further type of psychokinetic phenomenon. Finally, the claim that PK (and psychic functioning generally) might occur in refined and extensive forms is considered. It argues that this claim is not as outlandish as many have maintained and that we might have to accept something like the "magical" world view associated with so-called "primitive" societies.

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...this work is the only comparable work of sophisticated philosophical analysis. Fine scholarship on the reports of mediums and apparitions is combined with careful philosophical reasoning...The subject itself, with lively discussion of historical examples, will appeal to a wide audience. The careful argumentation should especially provoke philosophers and parapsychologists. Recommended for college and university collections.--CHOICE

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Non-Fiction Psychology Parapsychological Studies Mind, Body, Spirit Psychic Powers & Psychic Phenomena Unexplained Phenomena & the Paranormal Science Science in General Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Phenomenology & Existentialism

Preface
The Importance of Non-Experimental Evidence
Physical Mediumship: Two Classic Cases
Physical Mediumship: Miscellaneous Mediums
Apparitions
Toward a Theory of PK
Precognition Without Retrocausation
Reflections on Super Psi
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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The Limits of Influence

Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science

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