Robert Chenault Givler

Robert Chenault Givler (1884–1975) was an American academic and writer closely associated with Tufts University. Archival records describe him as serving there in several roles over the years, including professor of philosophy, Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Hunt Professor of Psychology, and later professor and chair of the Department of Aesthetics and Creative Imagination.

Book records and library listings show a range of interests across ethics and psychology. Among the works associated with him are The Ethics of Hercules, The Story of Our Minds, Psychology: The Science of Human Behavior, and The Conscious Cross-section, suggesting a career spent exploring how people think, act, and form values.

The surviving public record seems to present him less as a widely famous literary figure than as a serious teacher-scholar whose writing grew out of university life. For readers today, his books offer a glimpse into an era when philosophy and psychology were often written for general readers as well as students.