Walter Bowers Pillsbury
Pillsbury in 1906
Born	Walter Bowers Pillsbury (1872-07-21)July 21, 1872 Burlington, Iowa, U.S.
Died	June 3, 1960(1960-06-03) (aged 87) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Alma mater	Cornell University University of Nebraska
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	Columbia University University of Michigan
Doctoral advisor	Edward B. Titchener
Doctoral students	John E. Winter John Willis Slaughter Floyd C. Dockeray Irwin Berg

Walter Bowers Pillsbury (July 21, 1872 – June 3, 1960) was an Americanpsychologist, born inBurlington, Iowa. He studied for two years atPenn College inOskaloosa, Iowa, and graduated from theUniversity of Nebraska (1892), and subsequently completed aPh.D. atCornell University (1896). Pillsbury taught at theUniversity of Michigan after 1897, in 1905–1910 as junior professor of philosophy and director of the psychological laboratory and afterward asprofessor of psychology. In 1908–1909 he lectured atColumbia University.

He served as president of the Western Philosophical Association in 1907 and of theAmerican Psychological Association in 1910. Besides contributing to theAmerican Journal of Psychology and toThe Philosophical Review, he translated, withEdward B. Titchener,Külpe'sIntroduction to Philosophy (1897) and published:

• L'Attention (1906; English edition, asAttention, 1908; Spanish translation, 1910)
• The Psychology of Reasoning (1910)
• The Essentials of Psychology (1911)
• A History of Psychology (1929)

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Colby, F.; Williams, T., eds. (1916). "Pillsbury, Walter Bowers".New International Encyclopedia. Vol. 18 (2nd ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. p. 629.

• Walter Bowers Pillsbury—Biographical Memoirs of theNational Academy of Sciences
• Walter Bowers Pillsbury atFind a Grave
• Raphelson 1980,"Psychology at Michigan: The Pillsbury years, 1897-1947"

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