Edgar A. Singer, Jr.
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Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr. (November 13, 1873 - April 4, 1954) was an American philosopher, who taught as a professor at the Pennsylvania University from 1909 until 1943.
Singer had been a student of the well-known exponent of American pragmatism, William James.[1]. He believed that there is no consciousness to be studied objectively by a science of mind. As an object for scientific psychology, he suggested behaviour, which was observable. But he was not a materialist. Neither was Singer an empiricist, his epistemology for a science of psychology was self described as Empirical-Idealism.
His pupils included Henry Bradford Smith, Edwin Ray Guthrie Jr. and C. West Churchman
[edit] Publications
- 1924, Modern thinkers and present problem
- 1924, Mind as behavior
- About Singer
- Churchman, C.W. (1982a). An appreciation of Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr. In C.W. Churchman, Thought and Wisdom, Intersystems Publications, Seaside, Calif., Ch. 10, 116-135.
[edit] References
- ^ Werner Ulrich (2002), A short biography of C. West Churchman. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
[edit] External links
- http://www.pragmatism.org/dmap/apa_presidents.htm
- Appreciation of C West Churchman by Werner Ulrich - includes useful background on Singer
- Edgar Arthur Singer by Andrew Basden, 2005.
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