THIS paper is based on a manuscript notebook of 281 pages, dated 1781-84, of case histories of 122 patients treated as inand out-patients at the General Infirmary at Leeds. Patients came from all over Yorkshire, and a few from Lancashire and Lincolnshire, particularly to consult Mr William Hey, FRS, senior surgeon to the Infirmary from 1773 to 1812. Patronage tickets were required. The notebook...

The English music theorist and philosophical writer Edmund Gurney was the first ‘fulltime’ psychical researcher in history. While he was primarily concerned with empirical evidence for telepathy, Gurney significantly contributed to the late nineteenth-century literature on hallucinations in the sane, and the psychology of hypnotism and dissociation. He conducted the first large-scale survey of ...

B. J. Buratti (chair; JPL/Caltech, 818-354-7427, [email protected]), Eleonora Ammannito (INAF-IFSI), Erik Asphaug (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), MiMi Aung (JPL/Caltech), James Bauer (JPL/Caltech), Julie Bellerose (JAXA/JSPEC), David Blewett (JHU/APL), William Bottke (Southwest Research Institute), Daniel Britt (Univ. of Central Florida), Julie Castillo-Rogez (JPL/Caltech), Tommy...

charm. In the summer of 1685, James II overcame invasions in the north and in the south. The invasion in the south had been led by the Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles the second. Monmouth had landed in Dorset and had been immediately proclaimed King by his supporters. He had, however, obtained no following in Bristol or in Wiltshire. Monmouth was defeated in a battle at Sedgemoor ...

In writing this paper I hope to lessen the polarization of religious discourse by making space for agnosticism between atheism and religious faith. I do this by critiquing two arguments against agnosticism, one offered by a ““new atheists,”” Richard Dawkins, and the other offered by a defender of faith, William James. The new atheists are notable not only for the strident rhetorical attacks on ...

1. Brief history of attention The problem of attention is the problem of selecting for active processing certain aspects of our physical environment (e.g., objects) or some ideas in our mind (which are stored in our memory). This problem is one of the oldest and most central issues in psychological science. Many great minds have wrestled with the definition of attention. In 1890, William James ...

Lyudmyla Kompaniyets, PhD; Nickolas T. Agathis, MD; Jennifer M. Nelson, Leigh Ellyn Preston, DrPH; Jean Y. Ko, Brook Belay, Audrey F. Pennington, Melissa L. Danielson, MSPH; Carla DeSisto, R. Chevinsky, Lyna Z. Schieber, DPhil, Hussain Yusuf, James Baggs, William Mac Kenzie, Karen K. Wong, Tegan Boehmer, Adi V. Gundlapalli, MD, Alyson B. Goodman, MD