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LADD, GEORGE TRUMBULL (1842– )

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LADD, See also:GEORGE See also:TRUMBULL (1842– ) , See also:American philosopher, was See also:born in Painesville, See also:Lake See also:county, See also:Ohio, on the 19th of See also:January 1842. He graduated at Western Reserve See also:College in 1864 and at See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary in 1869; preached in Edinburg, Ohio, in 1869–1871, and in the See also:Spring See also:Street Congregational See also:Church of See also:Milwaukee in 1871–1879; and was See also:professor of See also:philosophy at See also:Bowdoin College in 1879–1881, and See also:Clark professor of See also:metaphysics and moral philosophy at Yale from 1881 till 1901, when he took See also:charge of the See also:graduate See also:department of philosophy and See also:psychology; he became professor See also:emeritus in 1905. In 1879–1882 he lectured on See also:theology at Andover Theological Seminary, and in 1883 at Harvard, where in 1895–1896 he conducted a graduate seminary in See also:ethics. He lectured in See also:Japan in 1892, 1899 (when he also visited the See also:universities of See also:India) and 1906–1907. He was much influenced by See also:Lotze, whose Outlines of Philosophy he translated (6 vols., 1877), and was one of the first to introduce (1879) the study of experimental psychology into See also:America, the Yale psychological laboratory being founded by him.

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