James Sully was an English psychologist.
He was born at Bridgwater, Somerset the son of J.W. Sully, a liberal Baptist merchant and shipowner. He was educated at the Independent College, Taunton, Regents Park College, University of Gttingen, where he studied under Lotze, and at Humboldt University, Berlin where he studied under DuBoisReymond and Helmholtz. Originally destined for the Nonconformist ministry and in 1869 he became classical tutor at the Baptist College, Pontypool. In 1871, he adopted a literary and philosophic career. He was Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London, from 1892 to 1903, when he was succeeded by Carveth Read.
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