“An excellent overview of the development of Piaget's theory is provided by Chapman (1988) and more specifically about equilibration in a paper… — 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
“Piaget's account of equilibration is not only crucial for understanding his approach, it also sets his theory apart from most other theories… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“Piaget, J. (1971). Insights and illusions of philosophy. New York: World Publishing Company. (Original work published in 1965)” — 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,… — 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… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“Psychologists do not see the need to work through Piaget’s complex ideas about equilibration and allied processes unless they first recognize the… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“Unlike Kant, for whom normative categories are a priori and fully formed in their use, for Piaget any framework has a formation… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“Chapman, M. (1988). Constructive evolution: Origins and development of Piaget's thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapman, M. (1992). Equilibration and the dialectics… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“Piaget's work on infancy is based on the diligent observation of and experimentation with his own three children, Lucienne (born 1925), Jacqueline… — 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
