George Trumbull Ladd 2336327 220819003 2008-06-21T19:09:34Z Baseballtom 7067004 {{otherpeople|George Ladd}} '''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}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ladd, George Trumbull}} [[Category:1842 births]] [[Category:1921 deaths]] [[Category:American philosophers]] [[Category:American psychologists]] [[Category:Bowdoin College faculty]] [[Category:People from Painesville, Ohio]]