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.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Bibliography 4 External links

[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.

[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).

[edit] External links

• Holt's publications, URL accessed August 21, 2006
• Obituary, American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Jul., 1946), pp. 478-480, URL accessed August 21, 2006