About: Edwin Holt

Edwin Bissell Holt was a professor of philosophy and psychology at Harvard from 1901–1918. From 1926–1936 he was a visiting professor of psychology at Princeton University. Holt was born in Winchester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1896 and received his Ph.D. , also from Harvard, in 1901. Holt did research on the psychology of vision. In 1910 he helped inaugurate the philosophic school called new realism. Holt died in Rockland, Maine, in 1946.