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.

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.

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

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

This classic text, exploring the role of social experience in the development of understanding, shows the general perception of Piaget as someone who took insufficient account of social factors in psychology to be false.