“The key principle of Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology is constructivism. Constructivism rejects old-fashioned rationalism: Knowledge is not made out of special knowledge-parts preformed in each individual knower at birth. It also rejects empiricism: Knowledge does not consist of epistemic pieces… — 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
