People Who Study
Laws of Form

These are some of the people who have made a significant contribution to developing ideas related to Laws of Form.

George Spencer-Brown

Author of Laws of Form.
Lou Kauffman

Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago. Kauffman has published numerous articles on logic, imaginary logic, and knot theory.
web site: www.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/
email: kauffman@uic.edu
Francisco Varela

Author of Principles of Biological Autonomy and several papers relating to Laws of Form. Sadly, Varela passed away in May 2001. See the memoriam in the journal Psyche.
William Bricken

Developed the Losp Deductive Engine using boundary mathematics.
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Seattle University.
email: bricken@halcyon.com
Richard Shoup

Developed (in collaboration with Bricken) a variety of extensions and applications of Laws of Form at Interval Research (1993-2000).
Currently Chairman and founder of the Boundary Institute.
email: shoup@boundary.org
Cliff Barney

Writer, journalist.
email: cbarney@upside.com
Kurt von Meier

Artist. Taught experimental art course based on Laws of Form at Cal State Sacramento.
Eddie Oshins (deceased)

Physicist, psychology researcher, developer of Quantum Psychology, which rejects Spencer-Brown's transposition axiom.
email: Eddie@QuantumPsychology.com
Dave Keenan

Original compiler of the Laws of Form Bibliography.
web site: http://users.bigpond.net.au/d.keenan/
Jeff James

Author of [most of] this Laws of Form Web Site.
Author of A Calculus of Number Based on Spatial Forms.
email: jjames@acm.org
Tom McFarlane

Physicist, philosopher.
web site: www.integralscience.org.
email: thomasmc@stanfordalumni.org


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