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Psychical research in the history and philosophy of science. An introduction and review
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“Our retrospective demarcations risk that contamination we inherit from when psychologists became professionalized and set up internal and external boundaries (Evrard et al., 2018): orthodox researchers of old are now professional, while the heterodox at best are amateurs, perhaps even heretics”
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“Retroactive attributions based on his internal dissymmetry or on his supposed amateurism-problems already raised in the history of science (Alvarado, 2012;Sommer, 2014)-were some of the arguments used to downplay his influence since Wundt's 1892 anathema against both hypnotism and psychical research.”
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- Authors
- Sommer, A.
- Venue
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-12
- Volume
- 48
- Pages
- 38-45
- ISSN
- 1369-8486
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 1
- Language
- en
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (grant no. 089723/Z/09/Z)
- Cedar Creek Institute
- Perrott-Warrick Fund
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