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| Born | (1859-08-18)August 18, 1859 |
| Died | March 23, 1925(1925-03-23) (aged 65) Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S. |
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| Occupation(s) | Philosopher, psychologist |
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George Stuart Fullerton (August 18, 1859 – March 23, 1925) was an Americanphilosopher andpsychologist.
Fullerton was born inFatehgarh,British India, the son of the Rev. Robert Stuart Fullerton and Martha White Fullerton, AmericanPresbyterian missionaries. He moved to Philadelphia with his widowed mother and his siblings, after his father's death in 1865.[1] He graduated in 1879 from theUniversity of Pennsylvania and in 1884 fromYale Divinity School.
Fullerton returned to the University of Pennsylvania to be an instructor, adjunct professor, anddean of the department of philosophy, dean of the college, and vice provost of the university. In 1904 he was appointedprofessor of philosophy atColumbia University, and served as head of the department.
In 1890, Fullerton was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society.[2] He was the host of the first annual meeting of theAmerican Psychological Association in 1892 at theUniversity of Pennsylvania, and theAPA's fifth president, in 1896.
In 1914, while he was an exchange professor at theUniversity of Vienna, World War I broke out.[3] He was lecturing at Munich, Germany when interned. Fullerton 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. (Scottish psychologistHenry J. Watt suffered a similar fate.)
In 1884 Fullerton married Miss Rebekah Daingerfield Smith of Alexandria, Virginia; she died in 1892. Five years later, he married Julia Winslow Dickerson of Philadelphia, his widow. There were no children. Nearly an invalid for the last decade of his life, Fullerton died by suicide on March 23, 1925, at the age of 66. He was survived by his sisters in India, teacher Mary Fullerton, and physicianAnna Martha Fullerton.[4]
Fullerton's philosophy was realist. His writings include:
we learned that it would be best for us to depart from Germany immediately. I (William Romaine Newbold) met one of my former colleagues in the Department of Philosophy at Pennsylvania,Professor Fullerton of Columbia University and the University of Vienna, who lives in Munich, and he advised me to go to Switzerland, saying that the German government was already quartering troops on the citizens.
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