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
science and value. These same ideas were then developed step by
step in Piaget's investigations of children's cognitive
development.
Dr. Chapman claims that Piaget's use of developmental psychology
as a means for addressing questions about the evolution of
knowledge has been misunderstood by psychologists approaching his
work exclusively from the perspectives of their own discipline.
Reconstructing Piaget's intellectual biography makes possible a
better understanding of the questions he originally posed and the
answers he subsequently provided. Dr. Chapman concludes with an
assessment of Piaget's relevance for contemporary psychology and
philosophy and suggests ways in which Piagetian theory might be
further developed.
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