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William James: Psychical Research and the Challenge of Modernity

Krister Dylan Knapp

Print publication date: 2017

Print ISBN-13: 9781469631240

Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: September 2017

DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631240.001.0001

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A Human Rat Hole

A Human Rat Hole

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(p.139) Four A Human Rat Hole
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William James
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Krister Dylan Knapp

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University of North Carolina Press
DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631240.003.0005

Chapter four examines James's role as an investigator of physical mediums purporting to levitate tables and materialize ghostly forms of the deceased, and recounts the instances when he revealed several of them to be frauds including the notorious Eusapia Palladino.

Keywords:   William James, Empiricism, Facts, Frauds, Spiritualism, Physical Mediumship, Eusapia Palladino, Madame Blavatsky

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