Ernst von Glasersfeld
Born in 1917 in Munich, Ernst von Glasersfeld is a Philosophe, psychological cybernetician, , specialist in the epistemology and more particularly in the epistemology constructivist.
Biography
After a childhood passed with Prague, Ernst von Glasersfeld obtains its maturity in Suisse in 1935 then starts to study mathematics at the university of Vienna. In 1936 it leaves to Paris to study logic, philosophy and psychology. When the Nazis invade the Austria, all the goods of its family are confiscated. In 1939, he emigrates in Ireland where he becomes farmer and, in 1945, he obtains Irish nationality.
In 1947, von Glasersfeld leaves in Italy to work with within Italian Operational School. It becomes consulting and adviser for the languages of Ceccato and corresponding in Italy of several German and English newspapers. Between 1960 and 1966, it occupies various university stations in Italy, in particular within the Center for Cybernetics of Milan. In 1962 it is named director of the project in computational linguistics. In 1965 it meets Heinz von Foerster.
Between 1967 and 1987, he works within the department of psychology of the university of Georgia where Charles Smock makes him discover the theories of Jean Piaget. In 1970, von Glasersfeld goes to a meeting in Tullahoma, Tennessee where von Foerster, William Ross Ashby and Humberto Maturana present the foundations of the to him Cybernétique of second order. In 1981, it publishes in the collective work of Paul Watzlawick the invention of reality its article an introduction to the radical contructivism in which it presents Giambattista Vico like the first philosopher " constructiviste".
Since 1987, he works within the university of the Massachusetts.
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