Sheldrake and His Critics: The Sense of Being Glared at - Softcover

Sheldrake, Rupert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845400437 ISBN 13: 9781845400439

Publisher: Imprint Academic, 2005

Synopsis

Rupert Sheldrake outraged the scientific establishment in the early 1980s with his hypothesis of morphic resonance: his book A New Science of Life was denounced by the journal Nature as 'the best candidate for burning there has been for many years'. With his academic career torpedoed, Sheldrake has become the champion of 'the people's science'. Books such as Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home and The Sense of Being Stared At have won him popular acclaim and academic opprobrium in equal measure. In this special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Sheldrake summarizes his case for the 'non-visual detection of staring’. His claims are scrutinised by fourteen critics, to whose commentaries he then responds. In his editorial introduction, Revd. Anthony Freeman explores the concept of ‘heresy’ in science and in religion.

About this title

About the Author

Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and a former Research Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of Clare College Cambridge. He has conducted independent research for the past 20 years. Anthony Freeman is a priest in the Church of England, dismissed by his bishop for 'heretical' writing in 1994, since when he has been managing editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Imprint Academic
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845400437
• ISBN 13: 9781845400439
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Freeman Anthony