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Book The Child s Conception of Physical Causality

Download or read book The Child s Conception of Physical Causality written by Jean Piaget and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our encounters with the physical world are filled with miraculous puzzles-wind appears from somewhere, heavy objects (like oil tankers) float on oceans, yet smaller objects go to the bottom of our water-filled buckets. As adults, instead of confronting a whole world, we are reduced to driving from one parking garage to another. The Child's Conception of Physical Causality, part of the very beginning of the ground-breaking work of the Swiss naturalist Jean Piaget, is filled with creative experimental ideas for probing the most sophisticated ways of thinking in children. The strength of Piaget's research is evident in this collection of empirical data, systematically organized by tasks that illuminate how things work. Piaget's data are remarkably rich. In his new introduction, Jaan Valsiner observes that Piaget had no grand theoretical aims, yet the book's simple power cannot be ignored. Piaget's great contribution to developmental psychology was his "clinical method"-a tactic that integrated relevant aspects of naturalistic experiment, interview, and observation. Through this systematic inquiry, we gain insight into children's thinking. Reading Piaget will encourage the contemporary reader to think about the unity of psychological phenomena and their theoretical underpinnings. His wealth of creative experimental ideas probes into the most sophisticated ways of thinking in children. Technologies change, yet the creative curiosity of children remains basically unhindered by the consumer society. Piaget's data preserve the reality of the original phenomena. As such, this work will provide a wealth of information for developmental psychologists and those involved in the field of experimental science.

Book The Child s Conception of Physical Causality

Download or read book The Child s Conception of Physical Causality written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Origins of Intellect

Download or read book The Origins of Intellect written by John L. Phillips and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 1975-01-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works published by the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget and his associates during the past forty years constitute the largest repository of knowledge about the cognitive development of children that is available anywhere, and Piaget's general theory of intellectual development rivals, in scope and comprehensiveness, Freud's theory of personality development Here is a self-contained general summary of Piaget's theory, written at a relatively nontechnical level. It is suitable for use in a variety of courses in psychology and education -- child psychology, child development, educational psychology, learning, psychological systems, general psychology, and others. It will also interest professionals and educated laymen as a timely exposition of ideas that are attracting the attention of increasing numbers of American psychologists. In order to convey the complexities of the theory to readers who have had no previous contact with it, the author uses a number of unusual pedagogical devices. He first outlines the theory in an introduction that students can reread with increasing comprehension as they study the text. The main part of the book is an elucidation of the Piagetian periods of intellectual development, with enough illustrations of Piaget's research activities to give the theory meaning. The author frequently reproduces passages from Piaget's clinical observations with Piaget's interpretations deleted, so that the reader can assess his own understanding and better appreciate Piaget's style of inquiry. In an epilogue, the author discusses the educational implications of Piaget's work.

Book Phenomenology of Perception

Download or read book Phenomenology of Perception written by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s monumental Phénoménologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the landmark works of twentieth-century thought. This new translation, the first for over fifty years, makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers. Phenomenology of Perception stands in the great phenomenological tradition of Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. Yet Merleau-Ponty’s contribution is decisive, as he brings this tradition and other philosophical predecessors, particularly Descartes and Kant, to confront a neglected dimension of our experience: the lived body and the phenomenal world. Charting a bold course between the reductionism of science on the one hand and "intellectualism" on the other, Merleau-Ponty argues that we should regard the body not as a mere biological or physical unit, but as the body which structures one’s situation and experience within the world. Merleau-Ponty enriches his classic work with engaging studies of famous cases in the history of psychology and neurology as well as phenomena that continue to draw our attention, such as phantom limb syndrome, synaesthesia, and hallucination. This new translation includes many helpful features such as the reintroduction of Merleau-Ponty’s discursive Table of Contents as subtitles into the body of the text, a comprehensive Translator’s Introduction to its main themes, essential notes explaining key terms of translation, an extensive Index, and an important updating of Merleau-Ponty’s references to now available English translations. Also included is a new foreword by Taylor Carman and an introduction to Merleau-Ponty by Claude Lefort. Translated by Donald A. Landes.

Book One Hundred Twentieth Century Philosophers

Download or read book One Hundred Twentieth Century Philosophers written by Stuart Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers offers biographical information and critical analysis of the life, work and impact of some of the most significant figures in philosophy this century. Taken from the acclaimed Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers, the 100 entries are alphabetically organised, from Adorno to Zhang Binglin, and cover individuals from both continental and analytic philosophy. The entries have an identical four-part structure making it easy to compare and contrast information, comprising: * biographical details * a bibliography of major works * a listing of relevant secondary and critical literature * an appraisal of the philosopher's thoughts and achievements. A separate glossary provides an introduction to the origins, development and main features of major philosophical schools and movements and offers select bibliographies to guide the reader to further research.

Book Current Catalog

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Book Child Psychology and Pedagogy

Download or read book Child Psychology and Pedagogy written by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Merleau-Ponty is one of the few major phenomenologists to engage extensively with empirical research in the sciences, and the only one to examine child psychology with rigor and in such depth. His writings have recently become increasingly influential, as the findings of psychology and cognitive science inform and are informed by phenomenological inquiry. Merleau-Ponty’s Sorbonne lectures of 1949 to 1952 are a broad investigation into child psychology, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, phenomenology, sociology, and anthropology. They argue that the subject of child psychology is critical for any philosophical attempt to understand individual and intersubjective existence. Talia Welsh’s new translation provides Merleau-Ponty’s complete lectures on the seminal engagement of phenomenology and psychology.

Book How Children Learn Science

Download or read book How Children Learn Science written by Ronald G. Good and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth century Philosophers

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth century Philosophers written by Stuart C. Brown and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Dictionary provides detailed accounts of the lives, works, influences and receptions of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Over 1000 entries give both biographical and bibliographical information.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Piaget

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Piaget written by Ulrich Müller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Piaget provides a comprehensive introduction to different aspects of Jean Piaget's work.

Book Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences

Download or read book Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 1473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences addresses numerous issues in the emerging field of the philosophy of those sciences that are involved in the technological process of designing, developing and making of new technical artifacts and systems. These issues include the nature of design, of technological knowledge, and of technical artifacts, as well as the toolbox of engineers. Most of these have thus far not been analyzed in general philosophy of science, which has traditionally but inadequately regarded technology as mere applied science and focused on physics, biology, mathematics and the social sciences. First comprehensive philosophical handbook on technology and the engineering sciences Unparalleled in scope including explorative articles In depth discussion of technical artifacts and their ontology Provides extensive analysis of the nature of engineering design Focuses in detail on the role of models in technology

Book Freewill and Determinism

Download or read book Freewill and Determinism written by Richard Langdon Franklin and published by Kegan Paul International. This book was released on 1968 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jean Piaget and Neuch  tel

Download or read book Jean Piaget and Neuch tel written by Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007-12-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a socio-historical and cultural perspective, this book looks at Jean Piaget's own growth from childhood to scientific life. The international and multidisciplinary contributors examine the milieu in which Piaget was born and educated, and search for traces of the experiences, social relationships, commitments and debates that peppered his childhood and adolescence, and informed his future academic career.

Book The Language of Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard M. Gale
  • Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The Language of Time written by Richard M. Gale and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Textbook of Adolescent Psychiatry

Download or read book Textbook of Adolescent Psychiatry written by Richard Rosner and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescent Psychiatry is the first text-reference to provide such in-depth, comprehensive, and practical coverage of this specialist area. There are many questions pertinent to adolescence alone and these are highlighted throughout the book. Starting with the important aspects of normal development, the reader is then taken on to risk-behaviour and

Book A Dictionary of the Social Sciences

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Social Sciences written by Hugo F. Reading and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: