[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 8 Dec 2007 at 7:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Do you think that because they are near the bottom of the list that they >> felt no great need to make corrections? >> > > No, no. They did want to make corrections, and in fact did, including > changes at the bottom of the list. I was actually rather sorry that one > of the errors I found resulted in Margaret Washburn being booted from the > list. She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology (according > to Wiki). Margaret Floy Washburn received her PhD from Cornell in 1894, under the supervision of Titchener (his first PhD student, in fact). However, Christine Ladd completed her PhD requirements under Charles Sanders Peirce at Johns Hopkins in the early 1880s, but JHU didn't grant her degree until 1926. Of course, her PhD would have been in philosophy. Her psychological work was in color vision. She also made significant contributions to logic and mathematics.
Mary Whiton Calkins presented her thesis and held a defense with William James, Hugo Muensterberg and Josiah Royce, among others in 1895. Harvard refused to confer the PhD. Later they offered her a Radcliffe PhD, which she refused, saying she had never attended Radcliffe. There was an internet campaign a few years ago to have Harvard award her a posthumous PhD. Someone should pick it up again, now that Harvard has a woman president. Regards, Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ "Wherever it is possible to find out the cause of what is happening one should not have recourse to the gods" - Polybius, cited in E. H. Carr's What is History? (Macmillan, 1961, p. 68 n.). ===================================== ---
