'Ernst von Glasersfeld' is a proponent of
radical constructivism and is
Emeritus Professor of
Psychology at the
University of Georgia, Research Associate at the
Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. He is a member of the Board of Trustees,
American Society of Cybernetics, from which he received the
McCulloch Memorial Award in 1991; and a Member of the Scientific Board,
Instituto Piaget,
Lisbon.
Von Glasersfeld is a
philosopher and
cybernetician and spent large parts of his life in
Ireland (1940s), in
Italy (1950s) where he worked with
Silvio Ceccato and the
USA (as of 2006).
Elaborating upon
Giambattista Vico,
Jean Piaget’s genetic
epistemology,
Bishop Berkeley’s theory of perception,
James Joyce’s ''
Finnegans Wake'' and other important texts, von Glasersfeld developed his model of
Radical Constructivism - which is an
ethos shared by all of these writers to one degree or another.
He is also the creator of the first 120 symbols of the
lexigram, a device used in the field of
animal language.
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Ernst von Glasersfeld