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Ernst von Glasersfeld (born 1917 in Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
) is a philosopher, a cybernetician
Cybernetics

Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to control theory and systems theory....
 and is Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Psychology

Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
 at the University of Georgia
University of Georgia

The University of Georgia is a public university research university located in Athens, Georgia, Georgia , the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning....
, Research Associate at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts

The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system of the Massachusetts.The system includes University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Massachusetts Boston, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth , University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School....
, Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

Amherst is a New England town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2000 census, the population was 34,874....
. He is a member of the Board of Trustees, American Society of Cybernetics, from which he received the McCulloch Memorial Award in 1991. He is a member of the Scientific Board, Instituto Piaget
Instituto Piaget

Instituto Piaget is a Portugal private education institution of higher education with branches in Almada, Mirandela, Silves, Vila Nova de Gaia and Viseu....
, Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
.

Von Glasersfeld is a proponent of radical constructivism
Constructivist epistemology

Constructivist epistemology is an epistemology perspective in philosophy about the nature of scientific knowledge held by many philosophers of science....
 and spent large parts of his life in Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 (1940s), in Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 (1950s) where he worked with Silvio Ceccato
Silvio Ceccato

Silvio Ceccato was an Italian philosopher and linguist.Born in Montecchio Maggiore, he studied law and music. In 1949 he founded the international magazine Methodos, which was published until 1964....
 and in the U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.

Elaborating upon Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico

'Giovanni Battista Vico' or 'Vigo' was an Italy philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist.A critic of modern rationalism and apologist of classical antiquity, Vico's magnum opus is titled "Principles/Origins of [re]New[ed] Science about the Common Nature of Nations" ....
, Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget was a Switzerland philosophy and natural science,well known for his work studying children, his theory of cognitive development and for his epistemological view called "genetic epistemology."...
’s genetic epistemology
Epistemology

Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge. It addresses the questions:...
, Bishop Berkeley’s theory of perception, James Joyce
James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
’s Finnegan's Wake
Finnegan's Wake

"Finnegan's Wake" is a ballad that arose in the 1850s in the music-hall tradition of comical Irish songs.It is famous for being the basis of James Joyce's masterwork, Finnegans Wake, in which the comic resurrection of Tim Finnegan is symbolic of the universal cycle of life....
 and other important texts, von Glasersfeld developed his model of Radical Constructivism
Constructivist epistemology

Constructivist epistemology is an epistemology perspective in philosophy about the nature of scientific knowledge held by many philosophers of science....
 - which is an ethos
Ethos

Ethos is a Ancient Greek word originally meaning "accustomed place" , "custom, habit", that can be translated into English language in different ways....
 shared by all of these writers to one degree or another.

He is also the creator of the first 120 symbols of the lexigram
Lexigram

A lexigram is a symbol that represents a word but is not necessarily indicative of the object referenced by the word. Lexigrams were notably used by the Georgia State University Language Research Center to communicate with bonobos and chimpanzees....
, a device used in the field of animal language
Animal language

Animal language is the modeling of human language in non human animal systems. While the term is widely used, most researchers agree that animal languages are not as complex or expressive as human language....
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Ernst von Glasersfeld (born 1917 in Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
) is a philosopher, a cybernetician
Cybernetics

Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to control theory and systems theory....
 and is Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Psychology

Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
 at the University of Georgia
University of Georgia

The University of Georgia is a public university research university located in Athens, Georgia, Georgia , the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning....
, Research Associate at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts

The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system of the Massachusetts.The system includes University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Massachusetts Boston, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth , University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School....
, Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

Amherst is a New England town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2000 census, the population was 34,874....
. He is a member of the Board of Trustees, American Society of Cybernetics, from which he received the McCulloch Memorial Award in 1991. He is a member of the Scientific Board, Instituto Piaget
Instituto Piaget

Instituto Piaget is a Portugal private education institution of higher education with branches in Almada, Mirandela, Silves, Vila Nova de Gaia and Viseu....
, Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
.

Von Glasersfeld is a proponent of radical constructivism
Constructivist epistemology

Constructivist epistemology is an epistemology perspective in philosophy about the nature of scientific knowledge held by many philosophers of science....
 and spent large parts of his life in Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 (1940s), in Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 (1950s) where he worked with Silvio Ceccato
Silvio Ceccato

Silvio Ceccato was an Italian philosopher and linguist.Born in Montecchio Maggiore, he studied law and music. In 1949 he founded the international magazine Methodos, which was published until 1964....
 and in the U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.

Elaborating upon Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico

'Giovanni Battista Vico' or 'Vigo' was an Italy philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist.A critic of modern rationalism and apologist of classical antiquity, Vico's magnum opus is titled "Principles/Origins of [re]New[ed] Science about the Common Nature of Nations" ....
, Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget was a Switzerland philosophy and natural science,well known for his work studying children, his theory of cognitive development and for his epistemological view called "genetic epistemology."...
’s genetic epistemology
Epistemology

Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge. It addresses the questions:...
, Bishop Berkeley’s theory of perception, James Joyce
James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
’s Finnegan's Wake
Finnegan's Wake

"Finnegan's Wake" is a ballad that arose in the 1850s in the music-hall tradition of comical Irish songs.It is famous for being the basis of James Joyce's masterwork, Finnegans Wake, in which the comic resurrection of Tim Finnegan is symbolic of the universal cycle of life....
 and other important texts, von Glasersfeld developed his model of Radical Constructivism
Constructivist epistemology

Constructivist epistemology is an epistemology perspective in philosophy about the nature of scientific knowledge held by many philosophers of science....
 - which is an ethos
Ethos

Ethos is a Ancient Greek word originally meaning "accustomed place" , "custom, habit", that can be translated into English language in different ways....
 shared by all of these writers to one degree or another.

He is also the creator of the first 120 symbols of the lexigram
Lexigram

A lexigram is a symbol that represents a word but is not necessarily indicative of the object referenced by the word. Lexigrams were notably used by the Georgia State University Language Research Center to communicate with bonobos and chimpanzees....
, a device used in the field of animal language
Animal language

Animal language is the modeling of human language in non human animal systems. While the term is widely used, most researchers agree that animal languages are not as complex or expressive as human language....
.

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