Despite dissent in many quarters, Piaget's epistemology and the
developmental psychology derived from it remain the most powerful
theories in either field. From the beginning, Piaget's fundamental
epistemological notion was that all knowledge is rooted in action,
and for a long time, he identified action with transformation. What
is known is that which remains constant under transformatory
action. This book represents a fundamental reformulation of that
point of view. Alongside transformatory schemes, Piaget now
presents evidence that nontransformatory actions -- comparisons
that create morphisms and categories among diverse situations
constitute a necessary and complementary instrument of knowledge.
This work aims to elucidate that insight experimentally and
theoretically and to understand the developmental interaction of
comparing and transforming as knowledge is constructed.
This first English translation of Piaget's work includes studies
of children's understanding of geometric forms, machines, and
abstract concepts. It contains a clear statement of his mature
position on continuity with biology as well as with the history of
ideas.
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