Paul Watzlawick is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Paul Watzlawick as Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher (1921-2007).
Paul Watzlawick was born at Villach in 1921. His recorded nationality is Austria. He studied at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.
His academic posts were held at Stanford University.
The recorded fields of work are psychotherapy.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from Austria matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Paul Watzlawick died in 2007, aged 86. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Held posts at Stanford University
- Fields: psychotherapy
