Jean Piaget, Gil Henriques, Edgar Ascher

Morphisms and Categories

Comparing and Transforming

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780805803006
• ISBN-10: 0805803009
• Artikelnr.: 21481907

Autorenporträt

Edited by Terrance Brown, Authors Jean Piaget; Gil Henriques; Edgar Ascher

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: T. Brown
About the Translation. S. Papert
Preface. With Cl. Monnier
J. Vauclair
Rotations and Circumductions. With D. Voelin-Liambey
I. Berthoud-Papandropoulou
The Composition of Two Cyclic Successions. With A. Moreau
The Rotation of Cubes. With I. Fluckiger
M. Fluckiger
Compositions and Conservation of Lengths. With E. Marti
E. Mayer
The Composition of Differences. With H. Kilcher
J.P. Bronckart
The Sections of a Parallelepiped and a Cube. With C. Bruhlhart
E. Marbach
Correspondences of Kinships. With A. Karmiloff-Smith
A Special Case of Inferential Symmetry: Reading a Road Map Upside Down. With A. Karmiloff-Smith
Conflicts Among Symmetries. With Cl. Voelin
E. Rappe-du-Cher
Correspondences and Causality. With F. Kubli
Equilibrium of Moments in a System of Coaxial Disks. With A. Blanchet
E. Ackermann-Vallad o
Comparison of Two Machines and Their Regulators. G. Henriques
Morphisms and Transformations in the Construction of Invariants. E. Ascher
The Theory of Categories and Genetic Epistemology. General Conclusions.