Background
Calkins, Mary Whiton was born on March 30, 1863 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
psychologist personal idealist
Calkins, Mary Whiton was born on March 30, 1863 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
Smith College and Harvard University.
1887-1894, Instructor in Greek, later in Psychology, 1894-1929. Associate, then full Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, Wellesley College.
A teacher of both subjects. Mary Calkins prepared student texts for psychology and the history of philosophy. She made the self as central to psychology as it was to be in her metaphysics, where her real enthusiasm lay. Strongly influenced by Royce. she evolved a position she described as ‘absolutistic personalism’. She insisted both on the personal nature of all being and on the unity of all being in the ‘Absolute Self’. Her high reputation amongst philosophers was confirmed in 1918 by her election as President of the American Philosophical Association.