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[[File:Wm james.jpg|thumb|American psychologist and philosopher [[William James]] (1842–1910) was an early psychical researcher.]]

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'''Parapsychology''' is a field of research concerned with applying the [[pseudosciencescientific method]] concerned withto the investigation of [[paranormal]] and psychic phenomena which includes [[telepathy]], [[precognition]], [[clairvoyance]], [[psychokinesis]], [[near-death experience]]s, [[reincarnation]], [[apparitional experience]]s, and other paranormal claims.<ref>

*Daisie Radner, Michael Radner. (1982). ''Science and Unreason''. Wadsworth. pp. 38-66. ISBN 0-534-01153-5

*[[Paul Kurtz]]. ''Is Parapsychology a Science?''. In [[Kendrick Frazier]]. (1981). ''Paranormal Borderlands of Science''. Prometheus Books. pp. 5-23. ISBN 0-87975-148-7 "If parapsychologists can convince the skeptics, then they will have satisfied an essential criterion of a genuine science: the ability to replicate hypotheses in any and all laboratories and under standard experimental conditions. Until they can do that, their claims will continue to be held suspect by a large body of scientists."