PHILOSOPHER

Ernst von Glasersfeld

1917 - 2010

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Ernst von Glasersfeld (March 8, 1917, Munich – November 12, 2010, Leverett, Franklin County, Massachusetts) was a philosopher, and 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 was a member of the board of trustees of the American Society for Cybernetics, from which he received the McCulloch Memorial Award in 1991. He was a member of the scientific board of the Instituto Piaget, Lisbon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst von Glasersfeld has received more than 131,494 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ernst von Glasersfeld is the 889th most popular philosopher (down from 866th in 2019), the 3,072nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,911th in 2019) and the 113th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 889 out of 1,267. Before him are Theodoric of Freiberg, Jacob Moleschott, Nikephoros Blemmydes, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri, and Albrecht Ritschl. After him are Ian Hacking, Axiothea of Phlius, Ber Borochov, Beatus Rhenanus, Feng Youlan, and Cerinthus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 152. Before him are Zoltán Fábri, Mouloud Mammeri, Asima Chatterjee, Marsha Hunt, Donald Davidson, and Vasiľ Biľak. After him are Han Suyin, Vasily Mishin, Red Auerbach, Leopoldo Trieste, June Allyson, and Philipp von Boeselager. Among people deceased in 2010, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 147. Before him are Bogdan Bogdanović, Girija Prasad Koirala, Sinan Hasani, Cesare Siepi, Albert Ghiorso, and Roberto Rosato. After him are Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Fud Leclerc, Rudolf Barshai, Steingrímur Hermannsson, José Torres, and Alan Sillitoe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 3,072 out of 7,253. Before him are Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1648), Gustav Fröhlich (1902), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), Albrecht Ritschl (1822), Enno III, Count of East Frisia (1563), and Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599). After him are Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1619), Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (1933), Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1649), Alfred Andersch (1914), and Wilhelm Griesinger (1817).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 113. Before him are Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Valentin Weigel (1533), Rudolf Stammler (1856), Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588), Theodoric of Freiberg (1250), and Albrecht Ritschl (1822). After him are Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Johannes Agricola (1494), Erich Neumann (1905), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Karl Groos (1861), and Gabriel Biel (1418).

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