Walter Bowers Pillsbury

Walter Bowers Pillsbury (1872 to 1960) was an American psychologist who spent most of his career at the University of Michigan. Born in Burlington, Iowa, he studied for two years at Penn College in Oskaloosa, graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1892 and completed a Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1896. He joined Michigan in 1897, served from 1905 to 1910 as junior professor of philosophy and director of the psychological laboratory, and afterward held a professorship in psychology, with a stint lecturing at Columbia University in 1908 and 1909. He was president of the Western Philosophical Association in 1907 and of the American Psychological Association in 1910. With Edward B. Titchener he translated Külpe's Introduction to Philosophy, and his own books include Attention, The Psychology of Reasoning, The Essentials of Psychology and A History of Psychology.