Nationality United States Fields Psychology of Religion | Name Eugene Taylor Role Professor | |
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Died January 30, 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Books Shadow culture, The Mystery of Personali, A psychology of spiritua, William James on consciou, Stanley Cobb - a Builder of | ||
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Eugene Taylor (1946–2013) was a scholar on William James and a professor of psychology at Saybrook University.
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- 1995 03 21 what would william james have thought about alien encounters by eugene taylor ph d
- Biography
- Publications
- References
Biography
Taylor was educated at Southern Methodist University and Harvard Divinity School, and Boston University (PhD in the History and Philosophy of Psychology). He was the 1983 William James Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School. Taylor died in 2013 and was the subject of many remembrances and obituaries. Taylor held the rank of yondan (4th degree black belt) and was the founder the Harvard Aikido Club in 1981 and a shidoin (instructor) in the United States Aikido Federation. In 1993 he founded the Cambridge Institute of Psychology and Comparative Religions; was a founding member of The New Existentialists; and was the Vice President of the Massachusetts Association of Swedenborgian Churches (see Church of the New Jerusalem (Cambridge, Massachusetts)). Dr. Taylor was Senior Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (appointed official historian) and Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Taylor was famous for the size and scope of his personal library of an estimated 8000 volumes.http://www.chronicle.com/article/Haunted-by-Spirits/234262
Publications
Books authored or edited by Taylor include