Leytham, G. W. (b.1913): Papers Relating to E. C. Tolman (1886-1959)
- Tolman, E. C. (1886-1959)
- Date:
- 1891-1981
- Reference:
- PSY/TOL
- Archives and manuscripts
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Research material collected by Professor G. W. Leytham, University of Liverpool, for his proposed biography of Professor E. C. Tolman.
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Arranged into series under the heading of E. C. Tolman then alphabetically by subject.
PSY/TOL/1 Tolman, E. C.: Files I, 1891-1981
PYS/TOL/2 Tolman, E.C.: Files II, 1922-1973
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Biographical note
Tolman received his Ph.D.from Harvard in 1915 and also married in the same year. In the autumn of 1915 Tolman and his wife moved to Evanston, Illinois, where for 3 years he taught at Northwestern University. In 1918 Tolman was offered a lectureship at Berkeley. He accepted and stayed for 41 years. During his first years at the University, Tolman established an animal laboratory and taught his widely known class "The Tolman Seminar". Soon after Tolman arrived at Berkeley his thinking, influenced by Watson's work, turned toward behaviourism. In 1922 Tolman argued for a "true nonphysiological behaviourism" writing a series of articles which attempted to show how "mentalistic" concepts such as sensation, emotion and consciousness could be translated into new objective behavioural terms. Throughout his many years in Berkeley his constructive influence was powerfully felt both within the university and within the community. He successfully led the protracted fight of the Berkeley faculty against the imposition of a loyalty oath. (Tolman was a leader of the long fight in which a group of faculty members, including himself, lost their teaching posts for refusing to sign a special loyalty oath. Tolman was chairman of the Psychology Department at his dismissal in 1950. He was reinstated three years later after the State Supreme Court held that the oath, prescribed by the Board of Regents, was illegal). Dr Tolman received many honours in his academic life culminating in the naming of a new psychological building at Berkeley "Edward Chace Tolman Hall" in 1962.
Sources. "Edward Chace Tolman", History of Psychology in Autobigraphy (C. Murchison) Vol.4, 323-339, 1952
"In Memoriam Edward Chace Tolman" 1959 unknown publisher
"In Memoriam" University of California (nd)
"In Memory of Edward Chace Tolman (1886-1959)", G. W.Leytham Bulletin of the British Psychological Society. No.49 Oct 1962, pp 21-28
Selected Bibliography:
Purposive Behaviour in Animals and Men. (New York: Century Co.) 1932
"Drives Toward War". New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1942, pp.xv-118
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British Psychological Society accession number 0012.
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- 1611