83), astronomer Simon Newcomb, postal inspector, author, and "skeptic in chief Frank Podmore (p. Specifically, the reader becomes familiar with Society for Psychical Research (SPR) founders Henry Sidgwick, Frederic Myers, and Edmund Gurney, as well as investigators including Alfred Russel Wallace (coauthor of the theory of natural selection), physicist and chemist William Crookes, aristocrat and future prime minister Arthur Balfour, mathematician Nora (Balfour) Sidgwick, physicist William Barrett (cofounder of the American SPR), "cheerful cynic" Richard Hodgson (p. James' fellow ghost hunters included the codiscoverer of the theory of evolution, a physiologist from France who would win the Nobel Prize in Medicine, an Australian who became a founding member of the American Anthropological Society, a female mathematician who became principal of Cambridge University's first college for women, a pioneer in British utilitarian philosophy, and a trio of respected physicists.4 (p. However, James is just one of the many players in this "Who's Who" of psychical research: Like those of William James himself, science writer Deborah Blum's words are carefully chosen and almost lyrical in quality, making this book a quick and enjoyable read for parapsychology expert and novice alike. GHOST HUNTERS: WILLIAM JAMES AND THE SEARCH FOR SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH by Deborah Blum.
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