The Society for Psychical Research is a nonprofit organisation in the United Kingdom. Its stated purpose is to understand events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal. It describes
Henry Sidgwick, first president of the SPR
Henry Sidgwick
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Henry Sidgwick was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist and is best known in philosophy for his utilitarian treatise The Methods of Ethics. His work in economics has also had a lasting inf
Society for Psychical Research
…Moses, Charles Massey, Edmund Gurney, Hensleigh Wedgwood and Frederic W. H. Myers. The SPR was formally constituted on 20 February 1882 with philosopher Henry Sidgwick as its first president. The SPR was the first organisation of its kind in the world, its stated purpose being "to approach these varied problems without…
Henry Sidgwick Elliott & Fry 1890s
Arthur & Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, Henry Sidgwick, 1906