Edwin Holt
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Edwin Bissell Holt was a professor of philosophy and psychology at Harvard from 1901–1918. From 1926–1936 he was a visiting professor of psychology at Princeton University
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Holt was born in Winchester, Massachusetts
. He graduated from Harvard in 1896 and received his Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1901. Holt did research on the psychology of vision. In 1910 he helped inaugurate the philosophic school called new realism
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Holt died in Rockland, Maine
, in 1946.
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
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Holt was born in Winchester, Massachusetts
Winchester, Massachusetts
Winchester is a town located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, eight miles north of Boston. With its agricultural roots having mostly disappeared, it is now an affluent suburb...
. He graduated from Harvard in 1896 and received his Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1901. Holt did research on the psychology of vision. In 1910 he helped inaugurate the philosophic school called new realism
New realism (philosophy)
New realism was a philosophy expounded in the early 20th century by a group of six US based scholars, namely Edwin Bissell Holt , Walter Taylor Marvin , William Pepperell Montague , Ralph Barton Perry , Walter Boughton Pitkin and Edward Gleason Spaulding .The central feature of the new...
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Holt died in Rockland, Maine
Rockland, Maine
Rockland is a city in Knox County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,297. It is the county seat of Knox County. The city is a popular tourist destination...
, in 1946.
External links
- Works by Holt, on the Internet ArchiveInternet ArchiveThe Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive...
- Works by Holt on the Mead Project, URL accessed August 21, 2006
- Obituary, American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Jul., 1946), pp. 478-480, URL accessed August 21, 2006