Article ID: CBB954092311

The epistemologies of research on the survival of consciousness after death in the golden era of the Society for Psychical Research (1882–1930) (2023)

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The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) of London was founded in 1882 with the purpose of investigating psychical phenomena, especially the theme of survival, with scientific rigour. Despite the recognized importance of the SPR for dynamic psychiatry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there are few studies of its epistemological contributions to the theme of survival and its implications to science. In order to fill this gap, we have consulted the main journals of the SPR in its golden period, and highlight the epistemologies of Sidgwick, Myers, James, Podmore, Schiller, Lodge and Richet. We conclude that the authors, whether for or against survival, argued in defence of an expanded science, and looked forward to understanding the complexity of human experience.

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Authors & Contributors
Banerjee, Madhulika
Bradshaw, G. A.
Coleman, Deirdre
Dening, T. R.
Feder, Helena
Ferrari, Michel
Journals
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
History of Science
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
History of Psychiatry
History of Psychology
History of the Human Sciences
Publishers
Columbia University
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Palgrave Macmillan
Pennsylvania State University Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Delaware
Concepts
Consciousness
Epistemology
Death
Psychology
Developmental biology
Science and literature
People
Wundt, Wilhelm Max
Bandura, Albert
Barrett, William Fletcher
Crookes, William
Freud, Sigmund
Lodge, Oliver
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
16th century
20th century, late
Places
London (England)
British Isles
Institutions
Society for Psychical Research
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