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• Gaetano Kanizsa

  Italian Gestalt psychologist (1913–1993), founder of the Trieste school of experimental phenomenology. His two book-length compendia Grammatica del vedere [A Grammar of Sight] (1980) and Vedere e pensare [On Seeing and Thinking] (1991) are…

• Henri Wallon

  French developmental psychologist and Marxist politician (1879–1962), founder of the Enfance journal. For the purposes of this wiki, Wallon matters as the primary empirical source of Merleau-Ponty's 1950–51 Sorbonne course on The Child's R…

• 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…

• Jean Piaget

  Swiss developmental psychologist and genetic epistemologist (1896–1980). For the wiki, Piaget matters as the contrast figure against whom Merleau-Ponty sets his own developmental phenomenology — and against whom Wallon is silently preferre…

• Max Wertheimer

  Czech-Austrian psychologist (1880–1943), founder of Gestalt psychology. His 1923 paper Untersuchungen zur Lehre von der Gestalt (English: "Laws of Organization in Perceptual Forms," in W. D. Ellis ed., A Source Book of Gestalt Psychology,…