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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.
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Gabriele Chiari & M. Laura Nuzzo


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