Biology And Knowledge Revisited

Author : Sue Taylor Parker,Jonas Langer,Constance Milbrath
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135622466

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Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates. Contributors trace the history of ideas concerning the relationship between evolution and development, and bring powerful new conceptual systems and research data to bear on understanding the problem of experience-contingent brain development and evolution. They focus on processes of phenotype construction - which fill the gap between genes and behavior - and demonstrate that evolutionary psychological models of innate mental modules are incompatible with what is known about these processes. This book presents exciting new approaches to the development and evolution of cognitive and linguistic abilities. Returning to the broad evolutionary theme of a previous meeting, the symposium focused on specifically constructivist approaches to neurogenesis and language acquisition, and their evolution. It was organized around ideas about the relationship between development and evolution raised in Piaget's books. Research in this arena has yielded cutting-edge insight into behavioral influences on brain plasticity. Two of its subthemes run throughout - a critique of modularity models popular among 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.

Author : Sue Taylor Parker,Jonas Langer,Constance Milbrath
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135622459

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Biology and Knowledge Revisited by Sue Taylor Parker,Jonas Langer,Constance Milbrath Pdf

Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates. Contributors trace the history of ideas concerning the relationship between evolution and development, and bring powerful new conceptual systems and research data to bear on understanding the problem of experience-contingent brain development and evolution. They focus on processes of phenotype construction - which fill the gap between genes and behavior - and demonstrate that evolutionary psychological models of innate mental modules are incompatible with what is known about these processes. This book presents exciting new approaches to the development and evolution of cognitive and linguistic abilities. Returning to the broad evolutionary theme of a previous meeting, the symposium focused on specifically constructivist approaches to neurogenesis and language acquisition, and their evolution. It was organized around ideas about the relationship between development and evolution raised in Piaget's books. Research in this arena has yielded cutting-edge insight into behavioral influences on brain plasticity. Two of its subthemes run throughout - a critique of modularity models popular among 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.

Author : Sue Taylor Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cognitive neuroscience
ISBN : 0805846271

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Biology and knowledge revisited : from neurogenesis to psychogenesis by Sue Taylor Parker Pdf

Author : Patricia M. Locke,Rachel McCann
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780821445365

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Merleau-Ponty by Patricia M. Locke,Rachel McCann Pdf

Phenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, now indispensable to many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and the contribution of Merleau-Ponty’s thought to architectural theory and practice is well established. Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture is a vibrant collection of original essays by twelve eminent philosophers who mine Merleau-Ponty’s work to consider how we live and create as profoundly spatial beings. The resulting collection is essential to philosophers and creative artists as well as those concerned with the pressing ethical issues of our time. Each contributor presents a different facet of space, place, or architecture. These essays carve paths from Merleau-Ponty to other thinkers such as Irigaray, Deleuze, Ettinger, and Piaget. As the first collection devoted specifically to developing Merleau-Ponty’s contribution to our understanding of place and architecture, this book will speak to philosophers interested in the problem of space, architectural theorists, and a wide range of others in the arts and design community. Contributors: Nancy Barta-Smith, Edward S. Casey, Helen Fielding, Lisa Guenther, Galen A. Johnson, Randall Johnson, D. R. Koukal, Suzanne Cataldi Laba, Patricia M. Locke, Glen Mazis, Rachel McCann, David Morris, and Dorothea Olkowski.

Author : Ulrich Müller,Jeremy I. M. Carpendale,Leslie Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521898584

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The Cambridge Companion to Piaget by Ulrich Müller,Jeremy I. M. Carpendale,Leslie Smith Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Piaget provides a comprehensive introduction to different aspects of Jean Piaget's work.

Author : Jürgen Renn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691218595

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The Evolution of Knowledge by Jürgen Renn Pdf

A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technology This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations going back to the dawn of civilization while providing vital perspectives on the complex challenges confronting us today in the Anthropocene—this new geological epoch shaped by humankind. Renn reframes the history of science and technology within a much broader history of knowledge, analyzing key episodes such as the evolution of writing, the emergence of science in the ancient world, the Scientific Revolution of early modernity, the globalization of knowledge, industrialization, and the profound transformations wrought by modern science. He investigates the evolution of knowledge using an array of disciplines and methods, from cognitive science and experimental psychology to earth science and evolutionary biology. The result is an entirely new framework for understanding structural changes in systems of knowledge—and a bold new approach to the history and philosophy of science. Written by one of today's preeminent historians of science, The Evolution of Knowledge features discussions of historiographical themes, a glossary of key terms, and practical insights on global issues ranging from climate change to digital capitalism. This incisive book also serves as an invaluable introduction to the history of knowledge.

Author : Roger Sansom,Robert N. Brandon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262693530

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Integrating Evolution and Development by Roger Sansom,Robert N. Brandon Pdf

The chapters in Integrating Evolution and Development not only make a cse for the importance of developmental synthesis, they also make significant contributions to this fast-growing field of study.

Author : Frédérique Gayraud,Sophie Kern,Egidio Marsico
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443806404

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Emergence of Linguistic Abilities by Frédérique Gayraud,Sophie Kern,Egidio Marsico Pdf

This book attempts to address an interrelated set of issues about the emergence of linguistic abilities in the child. The various chapters intend to shed light on a particular and critical period in language development: the first three years of life. It is generally assumed in the field of the ontogeny of language that the child's first years of life are particularly crucial. This period is even sometimes considered as predictive at least in the short term, of the later abilities to communicate. During these first three years, gestures, phonetico-phonological, lexical and morpho-syntactic skills chronologically emerge. The main goal of this book is to address the issue of continuity between the developments of the different language components, by the means of recent findings of experts in each domain. Furthermore, the originality of this selection of chapters is to broaden the scope of the discussion by including papers dealing with related phenomena but from different perspectives such as phylogeny, pathology and animal communication. This book primarily concerns graduate students and researchers in the field of language acquisition but the audience can also include scholars from evolution of language, language pathology, animal communication, ontogeny/phylogeny research fields.

Author : Carrillo, Francisco J.,Koch, Gu_nter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800884298

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Knowledge For The Anthropocene by Carrillo, Francisco J.,Koch, Gu_nter Pdf

With human-induced environmental impacts disrupting human life in deeper ways and at a wider scale than anything previously experienced, this multidisciplinary book looks at the ways that current knowledge bases seem inadequate to help us deal with such realities. It offers a critical appraisal of the current knowledge infrastructure, including science, technology, innovation, education and informal knowledge systems.

Author : Ulrich Mueller,Jeremy I.M. Carpendale,Nancy Budwig,Bryan Sokol
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136676277

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Social Life and Social Knowledge by Ulrich Mueller,Jeremy I.M. Carpendale,Nancy Budwig,Bryan Sokol Pdf

In this new volume, leading researchers provide state-of-the-art perspectives on how social interaction influences the development of knowledge. The book integrates approaches from a variety of disciplines including developmental psychology, psychopathology, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary biology, and primatology. It reviews the

Author : Rik Smits
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351523592

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Dawn by Rik Smits Pdf

In this work, originally published in Dutch, Rik Smits theorizes that language could not have developed originally as a system of communication. It is, instead, the result of combining separate abilities, each of which developed independently to aid the survival of early humans. Lacking strength and speed, man relies on wisdom for survival. Smits theorizes that human skills in calculation and estimation continued to develop until they were sufficient to accommodate a system as complex as grammar. Only after our linguistic ability emerged could humans think logically and share our reasoning with others, at which point almost everything we now call culture began to flourish. Smits concludes that language cannot have long predated the invention of agriculture in the Middle East, some 14,000 years ago. The huge advance in civilization represented by language made abstract powers of reasoning indispensable for the first time, along with highly developed concepts of identity, past, present, and future, all of which rely upon language. This explanation of the origins of language throws new light on cave paintings by Cro-Magnon man, whose masterpieces date from about 40,000 to 15,000 years ago. Anatomically Cro-Magnons were modern humans, but they had no language in the modern sense. Their absence of language gave them no true sense of individual identity. This translation was made possible by a grant from the Dutch Foundation for Literature.

Author : Constance Milbrath,Cynthia Lightfoot
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136643057

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Art and Human Development by Constance Milbrath,Cynthia Lightfoot Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume explores art, its development, and its role in the construction of knowledge. Presenting theory and research on artistic development as a cultural and creative endeavor, contributors examine the origins of human art during the Paleolithic cultural revolution, as part of a modern cultural transformation, in the growth of a creative artist, and in developing children. Target chapters expressing the disciplinary perspectives of psychology, archaeology, communications, education, and the performing arts are followed by commentaries from internationally acclaimed scholars of human development. Part 1 explores how cultures harness and exploit the arts to give expression to values, social practices, and traditions. This section traces the emergence of new art forms that arose during social unrest, including the symbolization of spiritual beliefs expressed on the walls of Paleolithic caves, and the racial identity and cultural values expressed in the media of the hip-hop generation. Part 2 examines the journeys of a composer and a group of students to highlight the process of becoming an artist and the role education plays in its development. The book concludes with a focus on the development of aesthetic appreciation and artistic activity in childhood and adolescence, including, for example, how a child’s developing theory of mind affects appreciation for the arts, and how developing empathy and emotional regulation contribute to the cognitive and affective underpinnings of acting in adolescence. As a whole contributors explore the developmental, sociocultural, and evolutionary processes that make the creation and experience of art possible. Intended for researchers and advanced students in both human development and the arts, this book will also serve as a textbook for advanced courses on psychology and the arts and/or special topics courses in cognitive and/or human development.

Author : Philip David Zelazo,Michael Chandler,Eveline Crone
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136647994

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Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience by Philip David Zelazo,Michael Chandler,Eveline Crone Pdf

This volume in the JPS Series is intended to help crystallize the emergence of a new field, "Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience," aimed at elucidating the neural correlates of the development of socio-emotional experience and behavior. No one any longer doubts that infants are born with a biologically based head start in accomplishing their important life tasks––genetic resources, if you will, that are exploited differently in different contexts. Nevertheless, it is also true that socially relevant neural functions develop slowly during childhood and that this development is owed to complex interactions among genes, social and cultural environments, and children’s own behavior. A key challenge lies in finding appropriate ways of describing these complex interactions and the way in which they unfold in real developmental time. This is the challenge that motivates research in developmental social cognitive neuroscience. The chapters in this book highlight the latest and best research in this emerging field, and they cover a range of topics, including the typical and atypical development of imitation, impulsivity, novelty seeking, risk taking, self and social awareness, emotion regulation, moral reasoning, and executive function. Also addressed are the potential limitations of a neuroscientific approach to the development of social cognition. Intended for researchers and advanced students in neuroscience and developmental, cognitive, and social psychology, this book is appropriate for graduate seminars and upper-level undergraduate courses on social cognitive neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, social development, and cognitive development.

Author : Artin Goncu,Suzanne Gaskins
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135592424

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Play and Development by Artin Goncu,Suzanne Gaskins Pdf

Children's play is a universal human activity, and one that serves a significant purpose in personal development.Throughout this volume, which is an extension of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, the editors and contributors explore assumptions about play and its status as a unique and universal activity in humans.As a whole, Play

Author : Pieter R. Adriaens,Andreas De Block
Publisher : International Perspectives in
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199558667

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Maladapting Minds by Pieter R. Adriaens,Andreas De Block Pdf

This text explores the relationship between evolutionary theory and philosophy of psychiatry. In particular, it discusses a number of reasons why philosophers of psychiatry should take an interest in evolutionary explanations of mental disorders, and more generally, in evolutionary thinking.