Philosophy of Science and the Occult: Second EditionPatrick Grim State University of New York Press, 17 июл. 1990 г. - Всего страниц: 402 This book both introduces the philosophy of science through examination of the occult and examines the occult rigorously enough to raise central issues in the philosophy of science. Placed in the context of the occult, philosophy of science issues become immediately understandable and forcefully compelling. Divergent views on astrology, parapsychology, and quantum mechanics mysticism emphasize topics standard to the philosophy of science. Such issues as confirmation and selection for testing, causality and time, explanation and the nature of scientific laws, the status of theoretical entities, the problem of demarcation, theory and observation, and science and values are discussed. Significantly revised, this second edition presents an entirely new section of quantum mechanics and mysticism including instructions from N. David Mermin for constructing a device which dramatically illustrates the genuinely puzzling phenomena of quantum mechanics. A more complete and current review of research on astrology has been included in this new edition, and the section on the problem of demarcation has been broadened. |
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A Statement by 186 Leading Scientist | 18 |
The Strange Case of Astrology | 23 |
On Dismissing Astrology and Other Irrationalities | 28 |
Spheres of Influence | 37 |
A Critical Review | 51 |
Coincidence and Explanation | 205 |
Science or Pseudoscience? | 214 |
Philosophical Difficulties with Paranormal Knowledge Claims | 232 |
Precognition and the Paradoxes of Causality | 243 |
Second Report on a Case of Experimenter Fraud | 253 |
Suggested Readings | 264 |
QUANTUM MYSTICISM | 267 |
Conflicting Notes from Einstein and Bohr | 272 |
Suggested Readings | 82 |
SCIENCE or PSEUDOSCIENCE? THE PROBLEM OF DEMARCATION | 87 |
Winning through Pseudoscience | 92 |
Conjectures and Refutations | 104 |
Demarcating Genuine Science from Pseudoscience | 111 |
Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research? | 123 |
The Popperian versus the Kuhnian Research Programme | 131 |
Kuhn Popper and the Normative Problem of Demarcation | 140 |
The Conservatism of Pseudoscience | 156 |
A Crisis of Modern Intellect | 170 |
Suggested Readings | 179 |
PARAPSYCHOLOGY | 183 |
An Empirical Science | 187 |
The Unity of All Things | 274 |
Einstein Doesnt Like It | 285 |
The Yogi and the Quantum | 302 |
Quantum Mysteries for Anyone | 315 |
Mind Matter and Quantum Mechanics | 326 |
Suggested Readings | 350 |
OTHER APPROACHES TO THE OCCULT | 353 |
Notes on Mysticism and Nitrous Oxide | 355 |
Tacit Assumptions | 361 |
Scientific and Other Values | 370 |
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