Ulrich Müller

“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

“Because psychologists generally take knowledge as unproblematic, the complexity of Piagetian theory seems simply superfluous.”

— Ulrich Müller

“As a biologist, Piaget considered cognitive development to be part of a much more general tendency of living systems to grow, change,…

— Ulrich Müller

“Kant did not explain the origin of these judgments but assumed that they were attained by abstraction from the activity of the…

— Ulrich Müller

“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

“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

“Social contexts provide ubiquitous cases of the same point: If one bottle of beer costs £1, six individual bottles may cost £6,…

— Ulrich Müller

“According to Piaget, the central idea of empiricism is that “the function of cognitive mechanisms is to submit to reality, copying its…

— Ulrich Müller

“From an epistemological perspective, a person is a uniform being who interprets the different parts of her conscious knowledge in a coherent…

— Ulrich Müller

“Kant argued that the mind has both receptive capacities and spontaneous capabilities, both operative in human knowledge. For Kant (1787/1933, B74, B93),…

— Ulrich Müller

“the main problem of any epistemology is in fact to understand how the mind succeeds in constructing necessary relationships, which appear to…

— Ulrich Müller

“It is important to recall at the outset that by a cognitive equilibrium (which is analogous to the stability of a living…

— Ulrich Müller

“Empiricism is not just an empirical method but also a theory of experience. Essentially, it conceives of human beings as passive and…

— Ulrich Müller

“Such is Kant’s (1787/1933, B180) “schematism of understanding,” though he candidly confessed that how this occurred was a mystery “in the depths…

— Ulrich Müller

“in the same sense in which Kant held that the empirical sciences depend on some mental abilities – intuition and categories”

— Ulrich Müller

“Piaget, J. (1971). Insights and illusions of philosophy. New York: World Publishing Company. (Original work published in 1965)”

— Ulrich Müller

“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

“Organs are supple and capable of adapting to different situations and domains. Finally, they are open to development, and this is precisely…

— Ulrich Müller

“This raises the question of the role of Kantianism in Piaget's thinking. In the many discussions about this problem with one of…

— Ulrich Müller

“the relevance of epistemology for the study of psychology and psychological development is that epistemological assumptions often remain tacit. Practically, this amounts…

— Ulrich Müller

“Unlike Kant, for whom normative categories are a priori and fully formed in their use, for Piaget any framework has a formation…

— Ulrich Müller

“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

“Boom, J. (2004). Individualism and collectivism: A dynamic systems interpretation of Piaget's interactionism. In J. I. Carpendale & U. Müller (Eds.), Social…

— Ulrich Müller

“This law of equilibrium, Piaget repeats, is not something external, imposed upon intellectual change from without; it is not a transcendent, Platonic…

— Ulrich Müller

“Whatever is true is true, but not all truths are necessary truths. It is true that adding two pebbles to two pebbles…

— Ulrich Müller

“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

“Two hundred years later, Piaget reformulated this question from a more psychological perspective. It is no coincidence that he referred to Kant…

— Ulrich Müller

“In the opening chapter Piaget describes equilibrium as “…a process leading from certain states of near equilibrium to others, qualitatively different, through…

— Ulrich Müller

“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

“Kant argued that our intuition (i.e., sensibility) and understanding use a priori (i.e., independent of all experience) forms and categories, which are…

— Ulrich Müller

“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…

— Ulrich Müller

“In the preface of his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant (1787/1933, B XVI) refers in the same way to the Copernican Revolution.…

— Ulrich Müller