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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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…