Books by Jean Piaget

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book, the last one written by Piaget, presents a new line of empirical studies based on a revised formulation of his theory of the development of logical reasoning. The amended theory overcomes many problems and criticisms of his earlier formulations by providing a fresh explanation for the origin of mental operations and mental organization based on the concept of meaning. It also offers a more elegant vision of the continuity in mental development from birth to adulthood. As the final revision of Piaget''s theory -- and one that opens up new areas of inquiry -- this book calls for a reinterpretation of his earlier work -- a task which will occupy scholars for decades to come.

This text looks at Piaget's experimental ideas for probing the most sophisticated ways of children's thinking. It looks at the way that children perceive the causes of phenomena such as the occurence of wind, suggesting that appliance of these thought modes could improve our daily lives.

Possibility and Necessity was first published in 1987. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.This two-volume work—Jean Piaget''s last—was published in France in 1981 and 1983 and is available now for the first time in English translation. Reflecting the preoccupations and methodologies of his later years, Possibility and Necessity combines theoretical interpretation with detailed summaries of the experiments Piaget and his colleagues used to test their hypotheses.Volume 2 presents a series of experiments documenting the way children between the ages of four or five and eleven to thirteen come to develop a grasp of necessity and its role in understanding the world about them. The experiments show how children proceed from an initial level (at four or five years) of pseudo-necessities, where they see the world as necessarily what it appears to be without the existence of other possibilities, to an intermediate level (at six to ten years), where pseudo-necessities give way to increasingly rich arrays of possibilities, and a final stage (at eleven to thirteen years), where children are able to select among these multiple possibilities the one that fits all the data. This stage represents the optimal level of understanding reality, which is now seen by the child as infinitely variable yet coherent and lawful. Psychologically, this lawfulness corresponds to a sense of necessity, or certainty.Volume 2 thus completes the theory presented in Volume 1 (The Role of Possibility in Cognitive Development) by showing how cognitive development is mediated on the one hand by a dialectical process of ever-expanding possibilities and, on the other, by increasingly delimiting necessities. In demonstrating how this process operates in psychological development—and in pointing out analogies in the history of science — Piaget gave his genetic epistemology its final and most accomplished form. The acquisition of knowledge is thus shown to be the result of two complementary processes: the formation of possibilities and the grasping of necessary laws and constraints in the construction of a reasoned representation of the external world.

Summarizing in broad outline the data accumulated from about a hundred studies on the essential points of causal explanation, this introduction (written with the collaboration of R. Garcia) defines the main problems posed by these data.

First published in 1997. This is Volume XI of selected works of Jean Piaget which gives insights and illuminates illusions in the field of Philosophy. Piaget examines his own philosophical position and compares it with present-day continental philosophical thought.

One of the most salient and inspirational figures in psychological and educational research of the 20th century, Piaget was also prolific, authoring or editing over 80 books and numerous papers. This volume is the eighth in a set of nine which reproduce his original texts.

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Over a period of six decades, Jean Piaget conducted a program of naturalistic research that has profoundly affected our understanding of child development.

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume is the seventh of nine reproducing Piaget's original works.

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Originally published: London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1932.