• Two of philosopher and psychology Professor George Stuart Fullerton's books are bound together in this Kindle book: An Introduction To Philosophy (1906) and A Handbook of Ethical Theory (1922)
Is the mind in the body? What are the meaning of words? How do psychology and philosophy.overlap? These and other questions are explored by American author George Stuart Fullerton
About The Author Fullerton (1859–1925) was a philosopher, academic and at one point a prisoner of war. Fullerton graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Divinity School; and returned to Pennsylvania where he was an instructor, adjunct professor, dean of the department of philosophy, dean of the college, and vice provost of the university. In 1904 he was appointed professor of philosophy at Columbia University and head of the department. During World War I he was imprisoned in Vienna while working as an exchange professor. His internment lasted throughout the war and he returned to the U.S. with his health permanently damaged. He committed suicide at age 66.
George Stuart Fullerton was an American philosopher and psychologist.
He graduated in 1879 from the University of Pennsylvania and in 1884 from Yale Divinity School. In 1904 he was appointed professor of philosophy at Columbia University, and served as head of the department.
He was the host of the first annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in 1892 at the University of Pennsylvania, and the APA's fifth president, in 1896.
In 1914, while he was exchange professor at the University of Vienna, World War I broke out. He was Lecturing at Munich, Germany, when he was imprisoned as a civilian enemy national. He remained imprisoned for four years, until the end of the war, and conditions were so harsh that he returned to the U.S. with his health permanently damaged. Nearly an invalid for the last decade of his life, Fullerton committed suicide at the age of 66.