Leaps of faith : science, miracles, and the search for supernatural consolation

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Leaps of faith : science, miracles, and the search for supernatural consolation

Nicholas Humphrey ; with a new foreword by Daniel Dennett

Copernicus, 1999

1st softcover Copernicus ed

  • : pbk : alk. paper

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注記

U.S. ed. first published: New York : BasicBooks, c1996

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

"Elegant and literate" -THE TIMES OF LONDON "The kind of book that both skeptics and believers would do well to read"- SKEPTICAL INQUIRER "An urbane, original, convincing rebuttal of paranormal and supernatural notions" -NEW SCIENTIST "A lively, entertaining book... Humphrey has set himself a larger task than simply explaining why people believe in parapsychology: the task of explaining why it is irrational to believe in it."-NATURE

目次

That Hypothesis.- Who Needs It?- Preparing for the Best.- A Ministry of Science.- The Howling Storm.- Jam Today.- Another Think Coming.- Uncommon Sense.- The World of a Difference.- Breaking the Law.- Anything Goes?- Designed Too Far.- The Art of the Possible?- Behold the Man.- Into the Light.- P?K?- E?S?P?- Need You Ask.- Keeping the Faith.- Three Givens.- Being There.- Inside Stories.- On Good Authority.- It Stands to Reason.- Beyond the Limits.- Nothing for Free.- On the Wings of a Dove.- Notes.- Index.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA43713087
  • ISBN
    • 0387987207
  • LCCN
    99017046
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xi, 244 p.
  • 大きさ
    21 cm
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