- Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla
Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla (September 3,
1925 ) is a Venezuelan philosopher. He was born in Maracaibo and graduated from high school in Liceo Andrés Bello, Caracas. He graduated in philosophy and literature fromUniversidad Central de Venezuela in 1950, where he also obtained his PhD in Philosophy.He studied in the universities of Göttingen, Freiburg and München. Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla was also a teacher in Universidad Central de Venezuela and the rector-founder of
Universidad Simón Bolívar .He is noted for his theories about technical reasoning, published in 1974. [Mitcham, Carl. "Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy", University of Chicago Press, 1994. ISBN 0226531988]
In 2001 the Argentinian Philosophical Society considered Mayz Vallenilla the most outstanding Latin American philosopher of the twentieth century.
He holds the UNESCO Chair of Phliosophy. [ [http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2501&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html Prof. Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla: UNESCO Education ] ]
elect Works
"The Foundations Of Meta-technics", Translated by Carl Mitcham, University Press of America, 2004. ISBN 0761829059
References
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