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See also: English psychologist and See also: meta-physician, was See also: born at See also: Hull on the 27th of See also: January 1843
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He was educated at the Liverpool Institute, at Berlin and See also: Gottingen, and at Trinity See also: College, Cambridge; he also worked in the physiological laboratory at See also: Leipzig
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He studied originally for the Congregational See also: ministry, and for a See also: year was See also: minister of See also: Emmanuel See also: Church, Cambridge
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Subsequently he devoted himself to psychological research, became
See also: fellow of his college in 1875 and university professor of See also: mental philosophy in 1897
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He was See also: Gifford lecturer at See also: Aberdeen in 1895–1897, and at St Andrews in 1908-191o
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His See also: work shows the influence of Leibnitz and See also: Lotze, as well as of the biological theory of See also: evolution
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His psychology marks the definite break with the See also: sensationalism of the English school; experience is interpreted as a continuum into which distinctions are gradually introduced by the See also: action of selective See also: attention; the implication of the subject in experience is emphasized; and the operation in development of subjective, as well as natural, selection is maintained
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In his metaphysical work the analysis of scientific concepts leads to a See also: criticism of See also: naturalism and of dualism, and to a view of reality as a unity which implies both subjective and See also: objective factors
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This view is further worked out, through criticism of pluralism and as a theistic interpretation of the See also: world, in his St Andrews Gifford Lectures (the See also: Realm of Ends)
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Beside the article " Psychology " in the Ency
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Brit
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(9th, loth and 11th ed.) he has published Naturalism and See also: Agnosticism (1899, 3rd ed
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1907), besides numerous articles in the Journal of Physiology, Mind, and theSee also: British Journal of Psychology
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