George Trumbull Ladd
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'''George Trumbull Ladd''' ([[19 January]], [[1842]] – [[8 August]], [[1921]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[philosopher]] and [[psychologist]].
Born in [[Painesville, Ohio|Painesville]], [[Lake County, Ohio]], he graduated from [[Western Reserve College]] in [[1864]] and from [[Andover Theological Seminary]] in [[1869]]; he preached in [[Edinburg, Ohio]], during [[1869]] to [[1871]], and in the Spring Street Congregational Church of [[Milwaukee]] from [[1871]] to [[1879]]; and was professor of philosophy at [[Bowdoin College]] from 1879 to [[1881]], and Clark professor of [[metaphysics]] and [[moral philosophy]] at [[Yale]] from 1881 until [[1901]], when he took charge of the graduate department of philosophy and [[psychology]]; he became professor emeritus in [[1905]].
During 1879 to [[1882]] he lectured on theology at Andover Theological Seminary, and in [[1883]] at [[Harvard]], where during [[1895]] to [[1896]] he conducted a graduate seminar in [[ethics]]. He lectured in [[Japan]] in [[1892]] and [[1899]] (when he also visited the universities of [[India]]) and from [[1906]] to [[1907]]. He was much influenced by the [[Germany|German]] philosopher [[Rudolf Hermann Lotze|Lotze]], whose ''Outlines of Philosophy'' he translated (6 vols., 1877) and was one of the first to introduce ([[1879]]) the study of [[experimental psychology]] into America; the Yale psychological laboratory being founded by him.
==Publications==
*''The Principles of Church Polity'' (1882)
*''The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture'' (1884)
*''What is the Bible?'' (1888)
*''Essays on the Higher Education'' (1899), defending the "old" (Yale) system against the Harvard or "new" education, as praised by George H. Palmer
*''Elements of Physiological Psychology'' (1889, rewritten as ''Outlines of Physiological Psychology'', in 1890)
*''Primer of Psychology'' (1894)
*''Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory'' (1894)
*''Outlines of Descriptive Psychology'' (1898); in a "system of philosophy"
*''Philosophy of the Mind'' (1891)
*''Introduction To Philosophy: An Inquiry. A Rational System of Scientific Principles in Their Relation To Ultimate Reality'' (1890)
*''Philosophy of Knowledge'' (1897)
*''A Theory of Reality'' (1899)
*''Philosophy of Conduct'' (1902)
*''Philosophy of Religion'' (2 vols., 1905)
*''In Korea with Marquis Ito'' (1908)
*''Knowledge, Life and Reality'' (1909)
==References==
*{{1911}}
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