Piaget's conception of evolution
Subtitle: beyond Darwin and Lamarck
By: John G. Messerly ; foreword by Richard J. Blackwell.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Piaget, Jean, 1896-; Evolution
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." -- Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-160) and index.