Walter Bowers Pillsbury

Walter Bowers Pillsbury (July 21, 1872 – June 3, 1960) was an American psychologist, born in Burlington, Iowa. He studied for two years at Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and graduated from the University of Nebraska (1892), and subsequently completed a Ph.D. at Cornell University (1896). Pillsbury taught at the University of Michigan after 1897, in 1905–1910 as junior professor of philosophy and director of the psychological laboratory and afterward as professor of psychology. In 1908–1909 he lectured at Columbia University.

Born

Walter Bowers Pillsbury

(1872-07-21)July 21, 1872

Burlington, Iowa, U.S.

DiedJune 3, 1960(1960-06-03) (aged 87)

Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.

Education

• Cornell University
• University of Nebraska

FieldsPsychology

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Walter Bowers Pillsbury
Pillsbury (undated)
Born	Walter Bowers Pillsbury (1872-07-21)July 21, 1872 Burlington, Iowa, U.S.
Died	June 3, 1960(1960-06-03) (aged 87) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Education	Cornell University University of Nebraska
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Workplaces	Columbia University University of Michigan
Doctoral advisor	Edward B. Titchener
Doctoral students	Irwin Berg

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He served as president of the Western Philosophical Association in 1907 and of the American Psychological Association in 1910. Besides contributing to the American Journal of Psychology and to The Philosophical Review, he translated, with Edward B. Titchener, Külpe's Introduction to Philosophy (1897) and published:

• L'Attention (1906; English edition, as Attention, 1908; Spanish translation, 1910)
• The Psychology of Reasoning (1910)
• The Essentials of Psychology (1911)
• A History of Psychology (1929)