Robert H. Thouless

British academic Robert H. Thouless (?-1984) is best known as the author of Straight and Crooked Thinking (1953), which describes flaws in reasoning and argument.

He earned his PhD at was also a lecturer in psychology at Manchester, Glasgow, and the University of Cambridge.

He wrote on psychic phenomena, not as an advocate but describing a scientific approach to studying something which is not known with certainty to exist.