Edgar A. Singer, Jr.

Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr. (November 13, 1873 - April 4, 1954) was an American philosopher, who taught as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1909 until 1943.

Singer had been a student of the well-known exponent of American pragmatism, William James. Werner Ulrich (2002), [http://www.geocities.com/csh_home/picture_april2004.html A short biography of C. West Churchman] . Retrieved 9 May 2008.] . 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

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.

References

External links

* http://www.pragmatism.org/dmap/apa_presidents.htm
* [http://www.geocities.com/csh_home/cwc_appreciation.html Appreciation of C West Churchman by Werner Ulrich] - includes useful background on Singer
* [http://www.dooy.salford.ac.uk/ext/easinger.html#m.l Edgar Arthur Singer] by Andrew Basden, 2005.