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Edward B. Titchener
Overview
Edward Bradford Titchener (11 January 1867 – 3 August 1927) was an English psychologist who studied under Wilhelm Wundt for several years. Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: structuralism. After becoming a professor at Cornell University, he created the largest doctoral program at that time in the United States. His first graduate student, Margaret Floy Washburn, became the first woman to be granted a PhD in psychology (1894).
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It is not the purpose of this book to trace the origin of his ideas or their influence on contemporary discussion. But any reader who will glance at Professor Perry's annotated "List" of his published work may see that he had written important papers by 1883, and that most of what was original in his psychology must by then have…
William James, The Letters of William James, Vol. 1
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The various fields of consciousness, according to this school, result from a definite number of perfectly definite elementary mental states, mechanically associated into a mosaic or chemically combined. According to some thinkers,--Spencer, for example, or Taine,--these resolve themselves at last into little elementary psychic particles or atoms of 'mind-stuff,' out of which all the more immediately known mental…
William James, Talks To Teachers On Psychology
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It is hardly possible to overstate the agreement of education and psychology at this point. The course of study was thoroughly, even if unconsciously, controlled by the assumption that since mind and its faculties are the same throughout, the subject-matter of the adult, logically arranged facts and principles, is the natural “study” of the child—simplified and made easier of course, since the wind must be tempered…
John Dewey, The school and society
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Philosophers who discussed Edward B. Titchener
Related ideas
- Leipzig
- Harvard University
- Mind
- Gustav Fechner
- Oxford
- Psychology
- Structuralism (psychology)
- American Philosophical Society
- Empathy
- Introspection
- Leipzig University
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Chichester
- Mind (journal)
- Consciousness
- Psychologist
- Cornell University
- Voluntarism (philosophy)
- Hugo Münsterberg
- Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin)
Place in the tradition
Part of Consciousness.