James Ward (psychologist)
James Ward | |
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Born | Kingston upon Hull, England | 27 January 1843
Died | 4 March 1925 Cambridge, England | (aged 82)
Alma mater | |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | British idealism[1] |
Institutions | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Academic advisors | Hermann Lotze |
Notable students | |
Main interests | Philosophy of psychology |
Notable ideas | Panpsychism |
James Ward
Life
Ward was born in
Apprenticed to a Liverpool architect for four years, Ward studied Greek and logic and was a Sunday school teacher. In 1863, he entered
In 1869–1870, Ward won a scholarship to Germany, where he attended the lectures of Isaac Dormer in
With a dissertation entitled The Relation of Physiology to Psychology, Ward won a Trinity fellowship in 1875. Some of this work, An Interpretation of
For the rest of his life, the Dictionary of National Biography reports that he:
...held himself aloof from all institutional religion; but he did not tend towards secularism or even agnosticism; his early belief in spiritual values and his respect for all sincere religion never left him.
During 1876–1877 he returned to Germany, studying in Carl Ludwig's Leipzig physiological institute. Back in Cambridge, Ward continued physiological research under Michael Foster, publishing a pair of physiological papers in 1879 and 1880.
From 1880 onwards Ward moved away from physiology to psychology. His article Psychology for the ninth edition of the
Ward was a strong supporter of women's education, and met his Irish-born
Ward was elected to the new Chair of Mental Philosophy and Logic in 1897, his students including
from 1919 to 1920.Ward died in Cambridge, and was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium.
Philosophical work
Ward defended a philosophy of
References
- ^ a b c James Ward (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).
- ^ "Ward, James (WRT872J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- .
- ^ "Stout, George, Frederick (STT879GF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Vergilius Ture and Anselm Ferm A History of Philosophical Systems Littlefield, Adams, 1968.
- ISBN 0521235502.
- ^ James Ward Naturalism and Agnosticism New York: Macmillan Company, 1899.
- ISBN 978-0-521-35965-8. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- ^ The New Cambridge Modern History: The Era of Violence, 1898–1945, edited by David Thomson, Cambridge University Press, 1960, p. 135.
- ^ Hugh Joseph Tallon The Concept of Self in British and American Idealism 1939, p. 118.
- ISBN 978-0-8010-2724-6. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
External links
- Works by or about James Ward at Internet Archive
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 320.
- "Psychology", from Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th Edition, Volume XX (1886).