1st Edition

The Child's Conception of Physical Causality

By Jean Piaget Copyright 2001
322 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

309 Pages
by Routledge

Our encounters with the physical world are filled with miraculous puzzles-wind appears from somewhere, heavy objects (like oil tankers) float on oceans, yet smaller objects go to the bottom of our water-filled buckets. As adults, instead of confronting a whole world, we are reduced to driving from one parking garage to another. The Child's Conception of Physical Causality, part of the very... Read more
I: Explanation of Movement; I: Experiments Concerning The Nature of Air; II: The Origin of Wind and of Breath; III: Movement of The Clouds and The Heavenly Bodies; IV: Water Currents and Movements Due to Weight; V: The Child’s Idea of Force; II: Prediction and Explanation; VI: The Floating of Boats; VII: The Level of Water; VIII: The Problem of Shadows; III: Explanation of Machines; IX: The Mechanism of Bicycles; X: The Steam-Engine; XI: Trains, Motor-Cars, and Aeroplanes; IV: The Child’s Conception of Reality and Causality; Summary and Conclusion

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Jean Piaget