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George Frederick Stout
1860–1944
A leading figure in British philosophy and psychology, he helped shape early thinking about mind, perception, and mental acts. His clear, careful work influenced both academic psychology and later analytic philosophy.
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The international crisis in its ethical and psychological aspects : Lectures delivered in February and March, 1915, under the scheme for imperial studies in the University of London, at Bedford college for women
by Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, Bernard Bosanquet, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks, Gilbert Murray, George Frederick Stout
About the author
Born in South Shields, England, in 1860, George Frederick Stout became one of the best-known British philosophers and psychologists of his time. He studied at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he was later a fellow and lecturer, and he is commonly cited as G. F. Stout.
Stout is especially remembered for bringing psychology and philosophy into close conversation. Reference works describe him as an important critic of associationism and note his emphasis on mental acts rather than treating the mind as a simple bundle of sensations. He also served as editor of Mind, an influential philosophy journal, and wrote major works including Analytic Psychology and A Manual of Psychology.
Later in life, Stout spent time in St Andrews and died in Sydney, Australia, in 1944. His writing sits at an interesting point between nineteenth-century psychology and twentieth-century philosophy, which is one reason he still appears in histories of both fields.