Piaget: 63 books

Our encounters with the physical world are filled with miraculous puzzles-wind appears from somewhere, heavy objects (like oil tankers) float on oceans, yet smaller objects go to the bottom of our water-filled buckets. As adults, instead of confronting a whole world, we are reduced to driving from...

Our encounters with the physical world are filled with miraculous puzzles-wind appears from somewhere, heavy objects (like oil tankers) float on oceans, yet smaller objects go to the bottom of our water-filled buckets. As adults, instead of confronting a whole world, we are reduced to driving from...

First published in English in 1969, the book opens with a chapter by Pierre Oléron on intellectual activities. These fall into three groups: inductive activities (the apprehension of laws, relations and concepts), reasoning and problem solving. It describes typical methods and essential results obtained...

Despite dissent in many quarters, Piaget's epistemology and the developmental psychology derived from it remain the most powerful theories in either field. From the beginning, Piaget's fundamental epistemological notion was that all knowledge is rooted in action, and for a long time, he identified...

En pleine guerre mondiale (1942), le Collège de France a invité Jean Piaget à donner une série de leçons sur la psychologie de l’intelligence. Il a accepté. Malgré la déconstruction de la France occupée, Piaget continuait de construire résolument son édifice scientifique, tout comme l’enfant...

Jean Piaget is one of the greatest names in psychology. A knowledge of his ideas is essential for all in psychology and education. Sociological Studies is one of his major works to remain untranslated. Now an international team of Piaget experts has got together to ensure that this important work...

Originally published in English in 1976, the book draws on and extends our knowledge of the process of learning. The subject of the study is the general stage in a child’s development that comes between his successful performance of an activity without knowing how he did it – that is, what he...

Jean Piaget was one of the most salient and inspirational figures in psychological and educational research of the 20th century. He was also prolific, authoring or editing over 80 books and numerous journals and papers which spawned a continuation of his work over the following decades. His work now...

This book, the last one written by Piaget, presents a new line of empirical studies based on a revised formulation of his theory of the development of logical reasoning. The amended theory overcomes many problems and criticisms of his earlier formulations by providing a fresh explanation for the origin...

Originally published in English in 1971, structuralism was an increasingly important method of analysis in disciplines as diverse as mathematics, physics, biology, psychology, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and philosophy. Piaget here offers both a definitive introduction to the method and a...

One of the controversial philosophical issues of recent years has been the question of the nature of logical and mathematical entities. Platonist or linguistic modes of explanation have become fashionable, whilst abstrac­ tionist and constructionist theories have ceased to be so. Beth and Piaget...

Wyatt Greenlaw is your typical good looking "All-American" type who meets someone that could possibly be the woman of his dreams, and he can't remember her. Stephane Trudeau was simply minding her own business when he stumbled into her world and changed it forever. How can Wyatt find happiness with the dream woman he can't remember and will she even want him when he does?

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) è universalmente noto come il fondatore della psicologia dell’intelligenza. Tuttavia la sua pur titanica opera nel campo della psicologia è solo una parte del suo progetto di epistemologia genetica, l’impresa interdisciplinare e transdisciplinare più importante che il...

Il bambino non è, come voleva Rousseau, un semplice homunculus, ovvero un uomo in miniatura non ancora completo, bensì un essere sui generis, il cui sviluppo affettivo e cognitivo passa attraverso fasi differenziate e obbedisce a leggi proprie. È questo l’assunto fondamentale da cui parte Jean Piaget...