Constructive Evolution: Origins and Development of Piaget's Thought

by Michael Chapman

Book Overview

This book represents an attempt to understand the evolution of Jean Piaget's basic ideas in the context of his own intellectual development. Piaget sought to elucidate human knowledge by studying its origins and development. In this book, Michael Chapman applies the same method to Piaget's own thinking. Dr Chapman shows that some of the Swiss psychologist's essential ideas originated in adolescent philosophical speculations about the relation between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521367123
• ISBN13: 9780521367127
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"