Introduction to Genetic Epistemology

Introduction

Piaget published the three volumes of the “Introduction à l’épistémologie génétique” in Paris in 1950. They deal in turn with mathematical thought, physical thought, and biological, psychological and sociological thought. In each field Piaget compares the development of concepts in children with their history in science and argues that knowledge is neither innate nor copied from experience but constructed through the coordination of actions into ever more general structures. The work laid the foundations for the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology, which Piaget founded in Geneva in 1955, and for his later shorter summaries of genetic epistemology.

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• Critique of Pure Reason1781 · Immanuel Kant

More works by Jean Piaget

• 1932The Moral Judgment of the Child