von Glasersfeld

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Ernst von Glasersfeld
Philosopher and cybernetician (born in 1917 in Munich with Austrian citizenship), he spent large parts of his life in Ireland (1940s, where he worked as a farmer), in Italy (1950s, where he worked for Silvio Ceccato and the Italian Operational School) and the USA (where he is currently Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia and Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst). Elaborating upon Vico, Piaget’s genetic epistemology, Berkeley’s theory of perception, von Glasersfeld developed his model of radical constructivism, giving a great contribution to the development and spreading of such epistemology.
References
von Glasersfeld, E. (1987). The construction of knowledge: Contributions to conceptual semantics. Seaside, CA: Intersystems Publications. von Glasersfeld, E. (1994, April). The incommensurability of scientific and poetic knowledge. Expanded Translation of a talk given at the International Congress on Science, Mysticism, Poetry, and Consciousness, Instituto Piaget, Lisbon. von Glasersfeld, E. (1995). Radical constructivism: A way of knowing and learning. London & Washington: The Falmer Press. von Glasersfeld, E. (1997). The conceptual construction of time. Presented at Mind and Time, Neuchâtel, 8-10 September 1996. von Glasersfeld, E. (1997). Distinguishing the observer: An attempt at interpreting Maturana. von Glasersfeld, E. (2003). An exposition of constructivism: Why some like it radical.
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