“the main problem of any epistemology is in fact to understand how the mind succeeds in constructing necessary relationships, which appear to be independent of time, if the instruments of thought are merely psychological operations that are subject to evolution… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“the relevance of epistemology for the study of psychology and psychological development is that epistemological assumptions often remain tacit. Practically, this amounts to many psychologists basing their theories on assumptions that originate in the empiricist tradition (Piaget, 1970/1972a, p. 10).” — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“Because psychologists generally take knowledge as unproblematic, the complexity of Piagetian theory seems simply superfluous.” — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“the main problem of any epistemology is in fact to understand how the mind succeeds in constructing necessary relationships, which appear to be independent… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“Empiricism is not just an empirical method but also a theory of experience. Essentially, it conceives of human beings as passive and sense perception… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“According to Piaget, the central idea of empiricism is that “the function of cognitive mechanisms is to submit to reality, copying its features as… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“Piaget (1961/1966, pp. 152–153) made the same commitments as Kant: Normative properties are required for knowing reality, and so, following Kant, such properties are… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“Social contexts provide ubiquitous cases of the same point: If one bottle of beer costs £1, six individual bottles may cost £6, whereas a six-pack costs £5.” — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“Kant did not explain the origin of these judgments but assumed that they were attained by abstraction from the activity of the soul, which… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“Kant argued that the mind has both receptive capacities and spontaneous capabilities, both operative in human knowledge. For Kant (1787/1933, B74, B93), knowledge has… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“Jackson, I. (1987). On situating Piaget’s subject: A triangulation based on Kant, structuralism, and biology. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 17, 471–486.” — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“From an epistemological perspective, a person is a uniform being who interprets the different parts of her conscious knowledge in a coherent fashion (or… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“As a biologist, Piaget considered cognitive development to be part of a much more general tendency of living systems to grow, change, improve and… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“It is important to recall at the outset that by a cognitive equilibrium (which is analogous to the stability of a living organism) we… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
