num_pages: 370
description: What if a world-renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, the illustrious William James led a determined scientific investigation into unexplainable incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations. James and a small group of eminent scientists staked their reputations, their careers, even their sanity on one of the most extraordinary quests ever undertaken: to empirically prove the existence of ghosts, spirits, and psychic phenomena. What they pursued? and what they found raises questions as fascinating today as they were then.
language: English
title: Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
titlecomplete: Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
genres: Biography, Spiritualism, History, Science, Paranormal, Historical, Supernatural, Ghosts, Psychology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1108
publisher: Penguin Books