George Trumbull Ladd's Theory Of Psychology

George Trumbull Ladd ((1842-1921) [Painesville, Bowdoin, New Haven]. He wrote quite a lot and was noted for his work on the subject of psychology, Philosophy, and education. After being graduated from Western Reserve University and Andover Theological Seminary, he held pastorates for ten years, taught at Bowdoin, and then was appointed Heidelberg]. He was noted as a historian of philosophy, but he also developed a philosophy which was centred in the theory of value. In general, his position was idealistic, but independent. He insisted that science is concerned with facts, philosophy with values. The distinctive disciplines of philosophy, logic, philosophy at Yale where he taught for twenty-four years. He lectured in Japan, Honolulu, and Korea as well as in many places in the United States, and received many honours at home and abroad. He was one of the pioneers of experimental psychology in America. The psychological laboratory at Yale was founded by him. Ladd’s philosophy was theistic and placed personality in a central position. In many respects his ideas were similar to Lotze’s thought, and he wrote important documents on German idealism. His Philosophy of Mind, an Essay in the Metaphysics of Psychology (1895) is typical of his point of view, which worked from psychology to the problems of knowledge, metaphysics, ethics, and religion.

Petersburg, Halle]. Georg was an outstanding mathematician, who is noted for his contributions to the foundations of analysis, and for his theory of transfinite numbers. Between 1895 and 1897 he published his Foundations of the Theory of Transfinite