- Walter Bowers Pillsbury
Walter Bowers Pillsbury (July 21, 1872-June 3, 1960) was an American psychologist, born at Burlington,
Iowa . He studied for two years at Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, graduated from theUniversity of Nebraska (1892), and took his Ph.D. atCornell University (1896). Pillsbury taught at theUniversity of Michigan after 1897, in 1905-10 as junior professor of philosophy and director of the psychological laboratory and afterward asprofessor of psychology. In 1908-09 he lectured at Columbia. He served as president of theWestern Philosophical Association in 1907 and of theAmerican Psychological Association in 1910. Besides contributing to the "American Journal of Psychology " and to the "Philosophical Review", he translated, withEdward B. Titchener , Külpe's "Introduction to Philosophy" (1897) and published:
* "L'Attention" (1906; English edition, as "Attention", 1908; Spanish translation, 1910)
* "The Psychology of Reasoning" (1910)
* "The Essentials of Psychology" (1911)*
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