In the history of thought, Mary Whiton Calkins is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Mary Whiton Calkins as American philosopher and psychologist (1863–1930).
Mary Whiton Calkins was born at Hartford in 1863. Her recorded nationality is United States. She studied at Harvard University and Smith College.
The nineteenth century produced systems on a grand scale, and then the reaction against them.
Her academic posts were held at Wellesley College.
The recorded fields of work are psychology and philosophy.
The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.
That the work was done from United States matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Mary Whiton Calkins died in 1930, aged 67. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Held posts at Wellesley College
- Fields: psychology and philosophy
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