George Frederick Stout was born on 6 January 1860 in South Shields, England. A philosopher and psychologist, his Manual of Psychology (1898) became a well-known textbook. Elected Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge in 1884, Stout became Editor of Mind in 1891, making it Britain’s leading philosophical journal. He renewed his fellowship at Cambridge and was appointed Lecturer in Moral Sciences in 1894. In 1898, Stout was named Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy at Oxford, and in 1903, he was elected Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at St Andrews, a position he relinquished in 1936.
Elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1903, Stout received honorary degrees from the universities of Aberdeen, Durham, and St Andrews. Recognised for his outstanding intellectual ability, Stout became the first Anderson Lecturer in Comparative Psychology at the University of Aberdeen in 1896. As President of the Aristotelian Society, he was known for his contribution to Trope Theory. Notable works include Analytic Psychology (1896), Manual of Psychology (2 vols., 1898), and Studies in Philosophy and Psychology (1930).
