Huby, Pamela M(argaret) Clark (1922-)

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Huby, Pamela M(argaret) Clark (1922-)

British university lecturer in philosophy who experimented in parapsychology. She was born on April 21, 1922, in London and attended Oxford University (B.A., 1944; M.A., 1947). After graduation Huby was a lecturer in philosophy at St. Anne's College, Oxford (1947-49). She then joined the faculty at Liverpool University, where she was named a senior lecturer in 1971. Her philosophical works include Greek Ethics (1967) and Plato and Modern Morality (1972).

A member of both the Parapsychological Association, and the Society for Psychical Research, London, Huby conducted experiments in group telepathy and clairvoyance (some in collaboration with C. W. M. Wilson ), about which she wrote several papers. She also contributed a paper to Philosophical Foundations of Psychical Research, edited by S. C. Thakur.

Sources:

Huby, Pamela M. C. "Case of Xenoglossy." Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 44.

. "Effects of Centrally Acting Drugs on ESP Ability." Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 41.

. "New Evidence About 'Rose Morton.' " Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 45.

Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.

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