Quotes About Jean Piaget

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

to avoid the difficulties of teleological language, adaptation must be described as an equilibrium between the action of the organism on the environment and vice versa.

So we must start from this dual nature of intelligence as something both biological and logical.

The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.

This new philosophical psychology can in this respect be traced back to Maine de Biran, for even if in his time scientific psychology was unaware of its autonomy, and even if Biranian psychology was only critical of that of the empiricists, Biran believed in the Kantian distinction of noumena and phenomena and took care to limit his inquiry to the latter alone, which did not prevent him from extending it in the form of idealist speculations.