Abstraction and Representation

Essays on the Cultural Evolution of Thinking

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Peter Damerow

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Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

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The book deals with the development of thinking under different cultural conditions, focusing on the evolution of mathematical thinking in the history of science and education. History of science is concerned with the acquisition, accumulation and structuring of knowledge. It is therefore intimately linked to psychological and epistemological questions. This dimension of the history of science, however, has been widely neglected by historians of science. The book compensates for this neglect by combining the study of cognition, education and historical development of thinking. Starting from Piaget's genetic epistemology, it provides a conceptual framework for describing and explaining the development of cognition by reflective abstractions from systems of actions. Cognitive psychology is confronted with philosophical and pedagogical traditions, and applied to various topics in the history of thinking, in particular to the development of the number concept in children and in early history (pre-literate cultures and early civilizations).

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December 31st, 1995

Author

Peter Damerow

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

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XIV, 418 p.

Pages

418

Series

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

Dimensions

210x297x23

ISBN-13

9780792338161

Product ID

2474065

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