Edwin Holt

Edwin Holt
Born	August 21, 1873(1873-08-21) Winchester, Massachusetts
Died	January 25, 1946(1946-01-25) (aged 72) Rockland, Maine
Fields	philosophy and psychology
Institutions	Harvard University Princeton University
Alma mater	Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	William James
Doctoral students	Harold H. Schlosberg
Known for	New Realism

Edwin Bissell Holt (August 21, 1873 – January 25, 1946) was a professor of philosophy and psychology at Harvard from 1901–1918. From 1926–1936 he was a visiting professor of psychology at Princeton University.

Holt was born in Winchester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1896 and received his Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1901. Holt did research on the psychology of vision. In 1910 he helped inaugurate the philosophic school called new realism.

Holt died in Rockland, Maine, in 1946.

Bibliography

• "The Place of Illusory Experience in a Realistic World." in The New Realism. New York: Macmillan (1912).
• The Concept of Consciousness. New York: Macmillan (1914)
• The Freudian Wish and Its Place in Ethics. New York: Holt (1915)
• Animal Drive and the Learning Process. New York: Holt (1931).

External links

• Works by Holt, on the Internet Archive
• Works by Holt on the Mead Project, URL accessed August 21, 2006
• Obituary, American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Jul., 1946), pp. 478-480, URL accessed August 21, 2006