Volume 35, Number 21 & 22 · January 19, 1989
Distinguished Dissident
By Ernst Gombrich
James J. Gibson and the Psychology of Perception
by Edward S. Reed
Yale University Press, 348 pp., $32.50
Such an utterance would not normally endear its author to his professional colleagues, but I find it hard to imagine anyone being angry with 'Jimmy' Gibson. True, as an outsider, lacking all formal training in his field, I had and have no stake in the honor of the guild, but I was all the more happy to learn from Edward Reed's biography that even Gibson's academic critics testified to his 'great personal warmth' and passion for the truth.
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