Biology Knowledge Jean Piaget
Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the kinship amidst nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates.
Contributors trace the history of ideas concerning the kinship among evolution and development, and fetch powerful new conceptual schemes and exploration selective information to bear on understanding the problem of experience-contingent brain development and evolution. They focus on processes of phenotype construction – which fill the gap amongst genes and conduct – and demonstrate that evolutionary psychological models of innate mental modules are incompatible with what is known in regards to these processes. This book presents stimulating new approaches to the development and evolution of cognitive and linguistic abilities.
Returning to the wide evolutionary theme of a former meeting, the symposium concentered on quintessentially constructivist approaches to neurogenesis and language acquisition, and their evolution. It was organized around ideas in regards to the kinship amid development and evolution raised in Piaget’s books. Research in this arena has yielded cutting-edge clear or deep perception into behavioral influences on brain plasticity.
Two of it is subthemes run all around – a critique of modularity models usual amongst evolutionary psychologies and the prescient yet flawed nature of Piaget’s critique of the modern synthesis of evolution. As a result, Biology and Knowledge Revisited is intended for developmental psychologists, psycholinguists, biological anthropologists, evolutionary psychologists, and philosophers of science.
