TY - BOOK AU - Blum, Deborah. AU - Deborah Blum. TI - Ghost Hunters: : William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life after Death SN - 9780143038955 U1 - 823.1 BLU PY - 2006/// CY - , New York PB - : Penguin Book KW - Ghost Hunters KW - Scientific Proof KW - Life After Death N2 - 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 ER -