“Stephen Braude’s books are known for their original and penetrating insights; Dangerous Pursuits is no exception. Ranging from mediumship and parapsychology to multiple personality and jazz, Braude is an equal opportunity challenger, taking on unconventional thinkers as well as conventional paradigms. Although his topics are weighty, his clarity of expression and his wry sense of…

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (July 16, 2014) Acquire this book from: Amazon.com “Stephen Braude is a professional philosopher and well-established author both of books and articles who is particularly noted for two things. One is for his work in certain Borderland areas in which topics within philosophy, psychology, parapsychology and psychiatry meet, overlap and interact…

University of Chicago Press, 2007 Acquire this book (cloth only) from: Amazon.com “This book isn’t just good, it’s excellent. Stephen Braude is at the top of the intellectual food chain in the study of paranormal phenomena…” —Fred Frohock, author of Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism “The Gold Leaf Lady…

Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 Acquire this book from: Amazon.com (Paperback) “Certainly one of the best assessments ever written of the evidence for human survival of bodily death.” – Raymond Martin, Union College “This is quite likely the most informed book you’ll ever read on the subject from the perspective of a highly intelligent philosopher, not…

“Braude…has written an important book. It is, moreover, timely, clear, and keenly reasoned. What it attempts is astonishing, what it achieves is substantial.”–James M.O. Wheatley, University of Toronto ” I believe that the publication of this book marks a major event in the area of the philosophy of parapsychology and perhaps even in parapsychology itself….

“Braude’s study offers a load of evidence from a fresh quarter showing how difficult it is to get an honest hearing for deviant phenomena and how compliant the model of science actually is. I’m delighted to see it in print. Braude is surely one of the best informed and most readable philosophical guides, and his…

“a valuable addition to the growing body of new philosophical literature on descriptive psychopathology.”–British Journal of Psychiatry “Whatever the philosophical literature produces on MPD, the debt should be heavy to this stimulating and thoughtful book.”–Ethics “Braude has here put the scientific work on MPD on stronger philosophical ground by spelling out explicitly issues and assumptions…