Maurice Merleau-Ponty's scientific contributions

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... Many of the arguments of the Gestalt psychologists would play important roles in intellectual developments in psychology, philosophy and research methods across many disciplines, including Ethnomethodology (EM), as discussed recently by Clemens Eisenmann & Mike Lynch [2021] and outlined some time ago by Doug Maynard [1996], and ecological psychology, enactivism and e-cognition, [see, e.g., Kiverstein, van Dijk, & Rietveld 2019], whether directly or via Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty. Moreover, Gestalt psychology inspired a method of Psychotherapy: Gestalt Therapy [Wheeler & Axelsson 2015]; serves as a key to the development of qualitative research methods in psychology and beyond; and has influenced approaches to philosophy and philosophical analysis, exercising influence on phenomenology, in the work of Gurwitsch [2010b] and Merleau-Ponty [2012], and on Wittgenstein's later philosophy [1983]. While the main figures of the Gestalt movement did not quite achieve long-term discipline-transcending status, in the manner, perhaps, of some of those who inherited and implemented their ideas, their ideas have had significant impact. ...