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Possibility and Necessity

Volume 2

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Author:

Jean PiagetTranslated by Helga Feider

“This book contains very important developments in Piaget’s theory, as in his treatment of knowledge he concentrated more and more on psychological-procedural processes of equilibration and less on logical-structural models.  He considered the ‘opining up of infinite possibilities’ the central problem of any viable theory of knowledge in that it created a dialectical tension with the (almost contradictory) need for closure, proper to any biological system.  Possibility and Necessity is an important empirical contribution to clarify equilibration, a concept which is perhaps the most important in his theory, and which he worked on and revised for fifty years.” 

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Hans Furth, The Catholic University of America

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Swiss-born psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) taught at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne.  Among his many books published in English are Language and Thought of the Child; The Moral Judgment of the Child; Play, Dreams, and Imitation; The Construction of Reality in the Child; and The Origins of Intelligence in Children. Translator Helga Feider was a professor of psychology at the Universite de Quebec a Montreal. 

Swiss-born psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) taught at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne.  Among his many books published in English are Language and Thought of the Child; The Moral Judgment of the Child; Play, Dreams, and Imitation; The Construction of Reality in the Child; and The Origins of Intelligence in Children. Translator Helga Feider was a professor of psychology at the Universite de Quebec a Montreal. 

“This book contains very important developments in Piaget’s theory, as in his treatment of knowledge he concentrated more and more on psychological-procedural processes of equilibration and less on logical-structural models.  He considered the ‘opining up of infinite possibilities’ the central problem of any viable theory of knowledge in that it created a dialectical tension with the (almost contradictory) need for closure, proper to any biological system.  Possibility and Necessity is an important empirical contribution to clarify equilibration, a concept which is perhaps the most important in his theory, and which he worked on and revised for fifty years.”