Robert L. Morris

For other people named Robert Morris, see Robert Morris (disambiguation).
Robert L. Morris
Born (1942-07-09)July 9, 1942
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
Died August 12, 2004(2004-08-12) (aged 62)
Edinburgh, Scotland

Robert Lyle Morris (July 9, 1942 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania August 12, 2004 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was an American psychologist, parapsychologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he was the first holder of the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology at the Koestler Parapsychology Unit. He received his doctorate from Duke University.[1] Morris was Koestler Professor of Parapsychology from December 1985 until his death in August 2004.[2]

Richard Wiseman took his PhD in psychology under the supervision of Morris. Morris was also known to have cooperated with the skeptic group Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.[3] Morris co-wrote the book Guidelines for Testing Psychic Claimants (1995) with Wiseman, published by Prometheus Books.[4][5]

Morris once commented in the New Scientist that "parapsychology is still a collection of half-baked explanations in search of phenomena to explain."[6]

Publications

References

  1. Who was Robert L. Morris?
  2. Koestler Parapsychology Unit
  3. A Skeptic Gets Schooled: An Introduction to Parapsychology by Kylie Sturgess
  4. Gale Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology: Robert Lyle Morris
  5. Guidelines for Testing Psychic Claimants
  6. Michael W. Friedlander. (1998). At the Fringes of Science. Westview Press. p. 118. ISBN 0-8133-2200-6
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