Ghost Hunters BOOKS / Nonfiction

International Herald Tribune | August 16, 2006| | Copyright

Patricia Cohen
International Herald Tribune
08-16-2006
Ghost Hunters William James and the Search For Scientific Proof of Life After DeathBy Deborah Blum370 pages. $25.95. Penguin Press.Reviewed by Patricia Cohen*In the late 1880s, shortly after he helped found an organization to research the supernatural, William James confidently predicted that within 25 years science would resolve once and for all whether the dead could speak to the living. He and a handful of other brilliant 19th-century intellectuals was also fairly confident that the answer would be yes. And why not? Science had ...

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