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Edwin Bissell Holt (/ h oʊ l t /; August 21, 1873 – January 25, 1946) 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.
Edwin B. Holt (born 1873, Winchester, Massachusetts, U.S.—died January 25, 1946, Rockland, Maine) was an American psychologist and philosopher noted for his emphasis on the purposive character of knowing.
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Edwin Bissell Holt, an American psychologist and philosopher, was noted for his innovations in philosophical psychology. His influence was greater in psychology than in philosophy. In his time he was the American psychologist best known and most respected by the British.
Edwin B. Holt. ILLUSION, hallucination, and the erroneous experience in general, we are told, can have no place in a universe where everything is non-mental or real: and they cannot be satisfactorily accounted for by realistic philosophy. Such is the challenge that has been repeatedly thrown out from the idealist to the realist camp.
Edwin Bissell Holt (1873–1946) was an American psychologist-philosopher, an erudite scholar, a brilliant and graceful writer, a man of strong likes and dislikes in his opinions and social relations, and a thinker who had more influence than prestige, being more often followed than quoted.
Edwin Bissell Holt. "Response and Cognition I: The Specific Response Relation." The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, 12 (1915): 365-373.
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