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Galen A. Johnson
Senior Anglophone Merleau-Ponty scholar; co-author (with Carbone and Saint Aubert) of Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature (Fordham University Press, 2020) — a genuine ten-year co-authorship rather than a collecte…
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James J. Gibson
American psychologist (1904–1979), founder of ecological psychology. His The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1986; first edition 1979) develops the theory of perception as direct pickup of structural information from the optic ar…
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Leonard Lawlor
American philosopher and translator; Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University (since 2008; formerly Faudree-Hardin University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, where he served from 1990–2008).…
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Nelson Goodman
American philosopher (1906–1998), exponent of analytic aesthetics and constructive nominalism. His Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols (1968; 2nd ed. 1976) develops a denotational/symbolic theory of pictorial representatio…
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Vivian Sobchack
American film theorist; author of The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience (1992) and Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture (2004). Professor emerita at UCLA. On this wiki she matters as the phenomenologica…
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William James
American philosopher and psychologist (1842–1910), founder (with Peirce) of pragmatism and author of The Principles of Psychology (1890), The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), and Pragmatism (1907). In the wiki he enters as Bergson…