Piaget's Conception of Evolution: Beyond Darwin and Lamarck

Piaget's Conception of Evolution: Beyond Darwin and Lamarck
ISBN-10
0847682439
ISBN-13
9780847682430
Category
Psychology
Pages
202
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
John Gerard Messerly

Description

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.

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