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| Name | Gibson Boyce; William Ralph (1869-1935); Professor; DSc |
| Title | Professor |
| Forenames | William Ralph |
| Surname | Gibson Boyce |
| Dates | 1869-1935 |
| Epithet | DSc |
| Other Names | William Ralph Boyce Gibson |
| Gender | Male |
| Nationality | British |
| DatesAndPlaces | Born Paris, France 1869 died Surrey Hills, Australia 2 April 1935.
Paris, France 1869-1882
Bath, U.K. 1882-1887
Oxford, U.K. 1887-1893
France, Germany 1893-1895
Glasgow, U.K. 1895-1897
London, U.K. 1897-1910
Liverpool, U.K. 1910-1911
Melbourne, Australia 1912-1934 |
| Address | Melbourne, Australia |
| Relationships | Son of the Rev.William Gibson, Wesleyan Minister.
Lucy Judge Peacock (1872-1953) married Boyce Gibson in 1898. She had studied classics and oriental languages at Girton and Sanskrit at the Sorbonne and Jena. She collaborated with her husband on two translations of the work of Eucken and translated another alone.
The Boyce Gibsons had five sons, four of whom graduated from the University of Melbourne. Keith was killed in a climbing accident, Alexander (BA 1920) became the third Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Colin (BA 1938) became a Unitarian minister, Quentin (BA 1934) established Philosophy at the Canberra University College (later the Australian National University) and Ralph (BA 1927) became a leading member of the Australian Communist Party
In Jena Germany Boyce Gibson studied with Eucken and Liebmann, and in Paris worked with Emile Boutroux
In Glasgow he studied under Adamson and Henry Jones |
| Activity | Founder member of the British Psychological Society 1901.
Gibson-Boyce lived in Paris until he entered Kingswood School, Bath. After winning an open scholarship he went up to Queen's College, Oxford. He studied mathematics with a view to astronomy. He took a second class and proxime accessit [second] for the Taylorian Scholarship. For a brief period he was mathematics master at Clifton College, and then lived in France and Germany for 2 years before studying in Glasgow. Moving to London he was lecturer in logic, psychology and ethics at Hackney, Regent's Park, Westfield and New Colleges. Later becoming lecturer in philosophy
University of Liverpool. Moving to Australia he was Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at the University of Melbourne until his retirement. It was in this department at Melbourne that the university teaching of psychology began in Victoria.
Sources: Information compiled from a pamphlet entitled "The British Psychological Society 1901-1961" supplement to the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society by Kenna, J.C. (1913-2004) Hon.Archivist BPS (BPS London) 1961 and http://www.unimelb.edu.au/150/150people/gibson.htm (viewed 8 December 2004).
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| OtherInfo | He was also deeply interested in the Phenomenological Movement. |
| PublishedWorks | Translation of Husserl's "Ideen zu einer Phnomenologie und phnomenologischen Philosophie"in 1931 introduced Husserl to Anglophone readers
Treatise on "La Geomitrie de Descartes au point de vue de sa Methode" later published in abridged form in Revue Metaphysique et Morale
Boyce Gibson's writings include books and articles on ethics, logic, the philosophy of Eucken, psychology and published in journals including the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, London, Mind and the Revue de metaphysique et de morale
He also did a considerable amount of translation from the German e.g., Husserl's Ideas |
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| Source | Sources: Information compiled from a pamphlet entitled "The British Psychological Society 1901-1961" supplement to the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society by Kenna, J.C. (1913-2004) Hon.Archivist BPS (BPS London) 1961 and http://www.unimelb.edu.au/150/150people/gibson.htm (viewed 8 December 2004) |
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