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The
Limits of Influence:
Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science
Revised edition,
University Press of America, 1997
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from a fresh quarter showing how difficult it is to get an honest hearing
for deviant phenomena and how compliant the model of science actually is.
I'm delighted to see it in print. Braude is surely one of the best informed
and most readable philosophical guides, and his book offers the most orderly
entry into the inevitable quarrels. The anecdotal material is absolutely
fascinating. But Braude's careful speculations about its bearing on causality
and empirical confirmation are even more intriguing and much more important."--Joseph
Margolis, Temple University
"An excellent defense of the existence of large-scale psychokinesis. Braude does a very good job at arguing for the relevance of anecdotal evidence in support of large-scale psychokinesis. His chapter on physical mediumship, especially the mediumship of D.D. Home, presents a formidable challenge to the skeptical estimate of PK."--Prof. Michael Sudduth, San Francisco State University
"A challenging work for both skeptics and believers in psychic
effects, Braude...defends what to many would seem an outrageous thesis:
that historical reports on mediums and ghosts provide the best evidence
for psychokinetic phenomena--rather than laboratory controlled experiments.
A sequel to Braude's earlier work, ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical
Examination...this book is the only comparable work of sophisticated
philosophical analysis. Fine scholarship on the reports of mediums and
apparitions is combined with careful philosophical reasoning...The careful
argumentation should especially provoke philosophers and parapsychologists."--Choice
"Stephen Braude is among the most philosophically
sophisticated of those currently writing on the 'paranormal'. He is
perhaps the most
philosophically sophisticated among clear advocates of the paranormal.
What he attempts is clear and compelling argument for extremely unpopular
views, and that alone makes this book--like Braude's work in general--well
worth attending to. Braude's forceful arguments...and
his careful theoretical suggestions...make the book of genuine philosophical
interest"--Patrick
Grim, SUNY Stony Brook
"...a deep and serious book which in spite of its erudition makes
very interesting reading...should not be missed by anyone interested
in psi phenomena and psychokinesis."--New Humanity
"Braude's originality, cogency, and challenging
conclusions--and his detailed chronicle of psychic virtuosity--make
for a work that both
philosophers and parapsychologists should study."--James M.O.
Wheatley, University of Toronto
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DANGEROUS PURSUITS
MEDIUMSHIP, MIND, AND MUSIC
An Original Publication of
Anomalist Books
(August, 2020)
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WHAT'S SO DANGEROUS?
"Stephen Braude's books are known for their original and penetrating insights; Dangerous Pursuits is no exception. Ranging from mediumship and parapsychology to multiple personality and jazz, Braude is an equal opportunity challenger, taking on unconventional thinkers as well as conventional paradigms. Although his topics are weighty, his clarity of expression and his wry sense of humor make every chapter a delight to read and to contemplate."
— Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., co-editor
Varieties of Anomalous Experience
"Stephen Braude has excellent factual knowledge of the psychic, the mind, mediumship and related areas, and then shares his clear and deeper thinking about what they might be, how they work, and what are dead ends in our thinking that we can avoid.
He's not afraid to wrestle with complexities others skim over…like mediums who cheat sometimes, or just what is this "person" that we think might survive death. You can read a lot of Dangerous Pursuits for the pleasure of satisfying your curiosity, but you're also going to be thinking a lot more deeply as you read along. Excellent!"
— Charles T. Tart, Ph.D., author of Altered States of Consciousness
and Transpersonal Psychologies
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CRIMES OF REASON
ON MIND, NATURE, AND THE PARANORMAL
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
(July 16, 2014)
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"Stephen Braude is a professional philosopher and well established author both of books and articles who is particularly noted for two things.
One is for his work in certain Borderland areas in which topics within philosophy, psychology, parapsychology and psychiatry meet, overlap and interact (or should interact). The other is for the clarity and pithiness of expression with which he handles abstruse and difficult issues.
He has a gift for analogies, often amusing ones, which cut through layers of nonsense (often pretentious nonsense loaded with jargon) and expose the nub of a question. If Braude's views are correct – and they are certainly cogently argued – these topics are potentially of considerable and wide-ranging importance."
(Alan Gauld, University of Nottingham)
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The Gold Leaf Lady and Other
Parapsychological Investigations
University of Chicago Press, 2007
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“This book isn’t just good, it’s excellent. Stephen Braude is at the top of the intellectual food chain in the study of paranormal phenomena..."
—Fred Frohock, author of Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism
“The Gold Leaf Lady is a read not to be missed. To initiates it offers valuable updates and insights. To those inconversant with the current state of parapsychological research, it may rank as the best introduction available.”
—AntiMatters
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Immortal Remains:
The Evidence for Life After Death
Rowman & Littlefield, 2003
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"Certainly
one of the best assessments ever written of the evidence for human survival of bodily death."
- Raymond Martin, Union College
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ESP and
Psychokinesis:
A Philosophical Examination
Revised edition, Brown Walker Press, 2002
Temple University Press, 1979
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The Limits of Influence:
Psychokinesis and the
Philosophy of Science
Revised edition,
University Press of America, 1997
Routledge, 1986
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First Person Plural:
Multiple Personality and the
Philosophy of Mind
Revised edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 1995
Routledge, 1991
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