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Piaget's Conception of Evolution: Beyond Darwin and Lamarck
John G. Messerly
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paperback. Offering a full-length study of Jean Piaget as a philosopher and evolutionist, this book traces Piaget's earliest conjectures about knowledge through their further developments to their mature formulation as "genetic epistemology", and invites further explorations with his theory. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JNA; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 10. Weight in Grams: 265.
The first full-length study of Jean Piaget as a philosopher and evolutionist. Messerly traces Piaget's earliest conjectures about knowledge through its further developments to its mature formulation as 'genetic epistemology.' Messerly analyzes Piaget's constructivist theory of the evolution of human knowledge as continuous with, yet partially transcending, the biological process of adaptation to the environment. Messerly's study serves as an invitation to further explorations with Paiget's theory and will interest philosophers, biologists, and psychologists.
The first full-length study of Jean Piaget as a philosopher and evolutionist. Messerly traces Piaget's earliest conjectures about knowledge through its further developments to its mature formulation as 'genetic epistemology.' Messerly analyzes Piaget's constructivist theory of the evolution of human knowledge as continuous with, yet partially transcending, the biological process of adaptation to the environment. Messerly's study serves as an invitation to further explorations with Paiget's theory and will interest philosophers, biologists, and psychologists.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847682430
SKU
V9780847682430
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About John G. Messerly
John G. Messerly is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ursuline College. He is author of An Introduction to Ethical Theories and his articles have appeared in Southwest Philosophy Review, Kineses and Philosophical Studies.
Reviews for Piaget's Conception of Evolution: Beyond Darwin and Lamarck
The final chapter in Messerly's book, offers a masterful critique. . .This section is an important discussion, and it nicely leads to the elegant statement of the incompatibility between evolutionary and developmental epistemology
Leslie Smith, Lancaster Universtiy
The Quarterly Review Of Biology 6/98, Vol. 73, No. 2
Leslie Smith, Lancaster Universtiy
The Quarterly Review Of Biology 6/98, Vol. 73, No. 2