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1 online resource (ix, 237 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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The Jean Piaget Symposium series
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Jean Piaget Symposium series.
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Papers originally presented at the 29th Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Reductionism and the Circle of the Sciences / Terrance Brown -- Ways of Understanding -- Understanding, Explanation, and Reductionism: Finding a Cure for Cartesian Anxiety / Willis F. Overton -- Evolution, Entrenchment, and Innateness / William C. Wimsatt -- Reductionism in Mathematics / Jaime Oscar Falcon Vega, Gerardo Hernandez, Juan Jose Rivaud -- Representation -- Biological Emergence of Representation / Mark H. Bickhard -- Role of Systems of Signs in Reasoning / Terezinha Nunes -- Role of Representation in Piagetian Theory: Changes Over Time / Luisa Morgado -- Breathing Lessons: Self as Genre and Aesthetic / Cynthia Lightfoot -- Looking Toward the Future -- From Epistemology to Psychology in the Development of Knowledge / Leslie Smith. |
| Summary |
Among the many conceits of modern thought is the idea that philosophy, tainted as it is by subjective evaluation, is a shaky guide for human affairs. People, it is argued, are better off if they base their conduct either on know-how with its pragmatic criterion of truth (i.e., possibility) or on science with its universal criterion of rational necessity.Since Helmholtz, there has been increasing concern in the life sciences about the role of reductionism in the construction of knowledge. Is psychophysics really possible? Are biological phenomena just the deducible results of chemical. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Cognition -- Congresses.
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Cognition. |
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Knowledge, Theory of -- Congresses.
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Knowledge, Theory of. |
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Reductionism -- Congresses.
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Reductionism. |
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Congress.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Brown, Terrance.
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Smith, Leslie, 1943-
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Jean Piaget Society. Symposium (29th)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reductionism and the development of knowledge. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 2003 0805840699 (DLC) 2001058365 (OCoLC)48655466 |
| ISBN |
1410606953 (electronic book) |
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9781410606952 (electronic book) |
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0805840699 |
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9781135639891 (e-book ; PDF) |
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1135639892 |
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9781135639846 (e-book ; Mobi) |
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1135639841 |
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9781135639884 (e-book ; ePub) |
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1135639884 |
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9780805840698 (hardback) |
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0805840699 |
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9780415651387 (paperback) |
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0415651387 |
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