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George Trumbull Ladd
1842–1921
A pioneering American philosopher and psychologist, he helped bring experimental psychology into U.S. classrooms and later served as the second president of the American Psychological Association. His work also reflects the wide reach of American academic life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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In Korea with Marquis Ito
by George Trumbull Ladd
Rare days in Japan
by George Trumbull Ladd
About the author
Born in Painesville, Ohio, in 1842, George Trumbull Ladd studied at Western Reserve College and Andover Theological Seminary before beginning his career in the ministry. He later moved into academic philosophy, teaching at Bowdoin College and then at Yale, where he became a long-serving professor of philosophy.
Ladd is remembered as an important early figure in American psychology as well as philosophy. Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that his textbooks were influential in establishing experimental psychology in the United States, and he served as the second president of the American Psychological Association in 1893.
He died in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1921. For listeners interested in the history of ideas, his career sits at an interesting crossroads: religion, philosophy, and the emerging science of the mind.