We're going on a field trip to the library in order to research "Genetic epistemology" in respec to Jean Piaget's theories. Then we're going to write an article on in in Wikipedia.
good links and info re: Piaget
- knowledge has a biological function, and arises out of action
- knowledge is basically "operative"--it is about change and transformation
- knowledge consists of cognitive structures
- development proceeds by the assimilation of the environment to these structures, and the accommodation of these structures to the environment
- movement to higher levels of development depends on "reflecting abstraction," which means coming to know properties of one's own actions, or coming to know the ways in which they are coordinated
[06] Piaget didn't normally describe himself as a psychologist. He called his research program genetic epistemology. Nowadays, the term "genetic" has been restricted to the mechanisms of heredity in the English-speaking world; cashing Piaget's phrase out in contemporary terms would give us developmental theory of knowledge. Genetic epistemology (which, for Piaget, included the history of scientific ideas, as well as the study of development in individuals) is consistent with Objectivism in its biocentric concerns. But its focus is very different; enough so to make comparisons more difficult than they ought to be.
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