Piaget's Conception of Evolution: Beyond Darwin and Lamarck

by John G. Messerly

Overview

The first full-length study of Jean Piaget as a philosopher and evolutionist. Messerly traces Piaget's earliest conjectures about knowledge through its further developments to its mature formulation as 'genetic epistemology.' Messerly analyzes Piaget's constructivist theory of the evolution of human knowledge as continuous with, yet partially transcending, the biological process of adaptation to the environment. Messerly's study serves as an invitation to further explorations with Paiget's theory and will interest philosophers, biologists, and psychologists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847682430
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/28/1996
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.86(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

John G. Messerly is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ursuline College. He is author of An Introduction to Ethical Theories and his articles have appeared in Southwest Philosophy Review, Kineses and Philosophical Studies.

Editorial Reviews

The final chapter in Messerly's book, offers a masterful critique.. .This section is an important discussion, and it nicely leads to the elegant statement of the incompatibility between evolutionary and developmental epistemology

The Quarterly Review Of Biology 6/98, Vol. 73, No. 2 - Leslie Smith