Edwin Holt | |
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Born | August 21, 1873 Winchester, Massachusetts |
Died | January 25, 1946 | (aged 72)
Fields | philosophy and psychology |
Institutions | Harvard University Princeton University |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Doctoral advisor | William James |
Doctoral students | Harold H. Schlosberg |
Known for | new realism |
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.
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.
Holt died in Rockland, Maine, in 1946.