Ghost Hunters: William James and the Hunt for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

✍ Scribed by Blum, Deborah

• Book ID: 107360892
• Publisher: Arrow
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 285 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

SUMMARY: A Pulitzer Prize–winning author tells the amazing story of William James’s quest for empirical evidence of the spirit world What if a world -renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, the illustrious William James led a determined scientific investigation into “unexplainable” incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations. James and a small group of eminent scientists staked their reputations, their careers, even their sanity on one of the most extraordinary quests ever undertaken: to empirically prove the existence of ghosts, spirits, and psychic phenomena. What they pursued— and what they found—raises questions as fascinating today as they were then.