1st Edition

Piaget and the Foundations of Knowledge

Edited By Lynn S. Liben Copyright 1983
    272 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    First published in 1983. This volume is drawn from the Tenth Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society. The theme of that Symposium, selected by the Board of Directors of the Society, was Piaget and the Foundations of Knowledge. The goal of the Symposium was to provide a critical discussion of Piaget's views on the origins of knowledge, and to identify alternatives to those views.

    Chapter 1 From Genetic Epistemology to Historical Epistemology: Kant, Marx, and Piaget, Marx W. Wartofsky; Chapter 2 ::, Eleanor J. Gibson; Chapter 3 Constraints on the Development of Intermodal Perception, Elizabeth S. Spelke; Chapter 4 ::, David S. Palermo; Chapter 5 The Implications of a Semantic Theory for the Development of Class Logic, Ellin Kofsky Scholnick; Chapter 6 Structural Invariants in Development, Jean M. Mandler; Chapter 7 Cognitive Development is Structural and Transformational—Therefore Variant, Irving E. Sigel; Chapter 8 Newton, Einstein, Piaget, and the Concept of Self: The Role of the Self in the Process of Knowing, Michael Lewis; Chapter 9 Infant Social Cognition: Self, People, and Objects, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff; Chapter 10 The Role of Knowledge and Ideation in the Development of Delay Capacity, Walter Mischel; Chapter 11 Learning and Development Through Social Interaction and Conflict: A Challenge to Social Learning Theory, Frank B. Murray;

    Biography

    The Pennsylvania State University.