William James

Harvard philosopher and "father of American psychology" who took psychical research seriously, studied the medium Leonora Piper for decades, helped found the American Society for Psychical Research, and served as president of the (British) Society for Psychical Research in 1894-95 - lending the young field its most respectable early champion.

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