Critical Reflections on the Paranormal

Michael Stoeber is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Religious Education at The Catholic University of America. He has also written Theo-Monistic Mysticism: A Hindu Christian Comparison and Evil and the Mystics' God. Hugo Meynell is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary. He is the author of The Nature of Aesthetic Value, also published by SUNY Press; and Sense, Nonsense and Christianity; Grace versus Nature; The New Theology and Modern Theologians; God and the World; Freud, Marx, and Morals; The Intelligible Universe: A Cosmological Argument; An Introduction to the Philosophy of Bernard Lonergan; The Theology of Bernard Lonergan; and Is Christianity True?

• Acknowledgments 1. Critical Reflections on the Paranormal: An Introduction Michael Stoeber2. On Investigation of the So-Called Paranormal Hugo Meynell3. Parapsychology: Merits and Limits Donald Evans4. Why Critical Reflection on the Paranormal Is So Important—And So Difficult David Ray Griffin5. Reflections on Incorporeal Agency Terence Penelhum6. Souls in Process: A Theoretical Inquiry into Animal Psi Susan J. Armstrong7. Medico-Scientific Assumptions Regarding Paradeath Phenomena: Explanation or Obfuscation? Heather Botting8. Postmortem Survival: The State of the Debate Stephen E. Braude9. Morality and Parapsychology James R. HorneList of Contributors Index

"This book deals with a topic often mistakenly dismissed by scholars as magic or superstition due to our dominant materialistic-rational-empirical worldview. Stoeber and Meynell's book, by contrast, approaches the topic as one deserving of serious scholarly study and carries out its analysis with academic rigor. It engages several of North America's best philosophical minds in the process and produces a very readable result." — Harold Coward, University of Victoria