JAMES

See also:

• JAMES SULLY (1842– )
• SULLY, MAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE
• SULLY, THOMAS (1783—1872)

SULLY (1842– )  , English psychologist, was born on the 3rd of March 1842 at Bridgwater, and was educated at the Independent College, Taunton, the Regent's Park College, Gottingen and Berlin . He was originally destined for the Nonconformist ministry, but in 1871 adopted a literary and philosophic career . He was Grote professor of the philosophy of mind logic at University College, London, from 1892 to 1903, when he was succeeded by Carveth Read . An adherent of the associationist school of psychology, his views had great affinity with those of Alexander Bain . His monographs, as that on pessimism, are ably and readably written, and his text-books, of which The Human Mind (1892) is the most important, are models of sound exposition . Woxxs.—Sensation and Intuition (1874), Pessimism (1877), Illusions (1881; 4th ed., 1895), Outlines of Psychology (1884; many editions), Teacher's Handbook of Psychology (1886), Studies of Childhood (1895), Children's Ways (1897), and An Essay on Laughter (1902) .