Walter Bowers Pillsbury
Psychologist, Author
1872 – 1960
Who was Walter Bowers Pillsbury?
Walter Bowers Pillsbury was an American psychologist, born at Burlington, Iowa. He studied for two years at Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, graduated from the University of Nebraska, and took his Ph.D. at Cornell University. Pillsbury taught at the University of Michigan after 1897, in 1905–1910 as junior professor of philosophy and director of the psychological laboratory and afterward as professor of psychology. In 1908–1909 he lectured at Columbia. He served as president of the Western Philosophical Association in 1907 and of the American Psychological Association in 1910. Besides contributing to the American Journal of Psychology and to The Philosophical Review, he translated, with Edward B. Titchener, Külpe's Introduction to Philosophy and published:
L'Attention
The Psychology of Reasoning
The Essentials of Psychology
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds.. "". New International Encyclopedia. New York: Dodd, Mead.
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- Born
- Jul 21, 1872
Burlington - Also known as
- W. Pillsbury
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Cornell University
- Employment
- University of Michigan
- Lived in
- Iowa
- Died
- Jun 3, 1960
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on July 23, 2013
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