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This book is a rhetorical analysis of the “Seybert Report,”�based on the findings of the Seybert Commission formed in the nineteenth century at the University of Pennsylvania and�tasked with investigating the paranormal phenomena alleged to arise in Spiritualist s�ances. The findings of the report are significant because they provide a historical benchmark for how �paranormal� research–or psi–has been addressed by academics for well over a century. �Elizabeth Schleber Lowry examines academic�discourse with respect to psi from such approaches as the rhetoric of�science and scholarship in the history and philosophy of science.Typham this is the title: The Seybert Report Rhetoric, Rationale, and the Problem of Psi Research