The Koestler Parapsychology Unit at the University of Edinburgh

Record summary

The Koestler Chair and associated parapsychology research at the University of Edinburgh began in the early 1980s, creating a durable European setting for controlled work on extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, anomalous cognition, and belief. The unit is a useful institutional lead rather than a single positive case: it permits comparison of experimental design, replication, statistical controversy, and the sociology of contested science. Researchers should identify the particular investigators and experiments involved, since the unit’s output changed substantially across the decade and later periods.