Edwin Holt
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Edwin Bissell Holt (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.
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[edit] Early life
Holt was born in Winchester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1896 and received his Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1901.
[edit] Career
Holt did research on the psychology of vision. In 1910 he helped inaugurate the philosophic school called new realism.
Holt died in Rockland, Maine, in 1946.
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[edit] Bibliography
- "The Place of Illusory Experience in a Realistic World." in The New Realism. New York: Macmillan (1912).
- The Concept of Consciousness. New York: Macmillan (1914)
- The Freudian Wish and Its Place in Ethics. New York: Holt (1915)
- Animal Drive and the Learning Process. New York: Holt (1931).
