George Stout
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George Frederick Stout (1860-1944) was born in South Shields, the son of a shipbroker and attended the school of Charles Addison in Charlotte Terrace, opposite the Town Hall. Addison was a fine classical scholar, but an eccentric of violent temper, who spurred Stout to go to Cambridge. There he developed an interest in philosophy and in July 1888, he published an article on Herbartian psychology in Mind, the first of a series. Further articles made clear Stout's abiding interest, namely the nature of consciousness, of our knowledge of the material world and the relation between mind and matter.
Under Stout's editorship, (1891-1920) Mind became Britain's leading philosophical journal, and two of his celebrated pupils at Cambridge were G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell. His Analytic Psychology (1896) placed him among the best British psychological writers, past or present. In 1896, Stout became the first Anderson lecturer in comparative psychology at Aberdeen and his Manual of Psychology (2 vols. 1898-99) became a well-known textbook. Stout's later career took him to Oxford and St Andrews. He published his Studies in Philosophy and Psychology in 1930. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1899 to 1904, and from 1938 to 1939. He accompanied his son to Sydney, Australia in 1936 and died there in 1944.
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