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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 122,736 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ernst von Glasersfeld is the 866th most popular philosopher (down from 375th in 2019), the 2,914th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,688th in 2019) and the 106th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 866 out of 1,081. Before him are Léon Brunschvicg, Anandavardhana, Franciscus Gomarus, Liu Yuxi, František Tomášek, and Antipater of Tarsus. After him are Androcles, Susanne Langer, Gaudapada, Antoun Saadeh, Zaki al-Arsuzi, and Jean Wahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 151. Before him are Marsha Hunt, Armando Trovajoli, Philipp von Boeselager, Vasiľ Biľak, Adam Malik, and Suzy Delair. After him are Barry Commoner, Zoltán Fábri, Caspar Weinberger, William H. McNeill, Red Auerbach, and Dabbs Greer. Among people deceased in 2010, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 143. Before him are Leonid Kizim, John Leslie, Panajot Pano, Abraham Sutzkever, Emilio Eduardo Massera, and Caterina Boratto. After him are Rudolf Barshai, Nasr Abu Zayd, Norman Wisdom, Palle Huld, Stephen J. Cannell, and Tom Bosley.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 2,914 out of 6,142. Before him are Adolf Erman (1854), Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1658), Ralf Moeller (1959), Paul Levi (1883), Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), and Joachim Lemelsen (1888). After him are Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809), Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1910), Isdal Woman (1940), Engelbert II of Berg (1185), Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819), and Hermann Zapf (1918).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 106. Before him are Theodor Lessing (1872), Hans Albert (1921), Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Karl Vogt (1817), Joseph Dietzgen (1828), and Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743). After him are Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773), Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736), Erich Neumann (1905), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802), and Albrecht Ritschl (1822).

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