Ernst von Glasersfeld (March 8, 1917 in
Munich – November 12, 2010 in
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, American Society of Cybernetics, from which he received the McCulloch Memorial Award in 1991. He was a member of the Scientific Board,
Instituto Piaget,
Lisbon.