1st Edition
The Child as a Cartesian Thinker Children's Reasonings about Metaphysical Aspects of Reality
By Eugene Subbotsky
Copyright 1996
226 Pages
by
Psychology Press
226 Pages
by
Psychology Press
226 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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Originally published in 1996, this book presents and analyses children’s reasonings about fundamental metaphysical problems. The first part describes dialogues with children that were constructed on the basis of Descartes’ Mediations on First Philosophy and which look at children’s ideas about the relationships between true and false knowledge, mental images and physical objects, mind and body,... Read more
Introduction. 1. The Child as a Philosopher 2. Children and Cartesian Metaphysics: An Experimental Study of Children’s Metaphysical Reasonings 3. Children’s Judgements about the Metaphysical Aspects of a Human Being 4. The Development of a Metaphysical Knowledge in Children: A General View. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.
Biography
Subbotsky, Eugene
