Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society,
Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the
relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic
development, and their neurological substrates.
Contributors trace the history of ideas concerning the
relationship between evolution and development, and bring powerful
new conceptual systems and research data to bear on understanding
the problem of experience-contingent brain development and
evolution. They focus on processes of phenotype construction -
which fill the gap between genes and behavior - and demonstrate
that evolutionary psychological models of innate mental modules are
incompatible with what is known about these processes. This book
presents exciting new approaches to the development and evolution
of cognitive and linguistic abilities.
Returning to the broad evolutionary theme of a previous meeting,
the symposium focused on specifically constructivist approaches to
neurogenesis and language acquisition, and their evolution. It was
organized around ideas about the relationship between development
and evolution raised in Piaget's books. Research in this arena has
yielded cutting-edge insight into behavioral influences on brain
plasticity.
Two of its subthemes run throughout - a critique of modularity
models popular among evolutionary psychologies and the prescient
yet flawed nature of Piaget's critique of the modern synthesis of
evolution. As a result, Biology and Knowledge Revisited is intended
for developmental psychologists, psycholinguists, biological
anthropologists, evolutionary psychologists, and philosophers of
science.
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