{"product_id":"morphisms-and-categories-jean-piaget-9780805803006","title":"Morphisms and Categories: Comparing and Transforming","description":"Despite dissent in many quarters, Piaget's epistemology and the developmental psychology derived from it remain the most powerful theories in either field. From the beginning, Piaget's fundamental epistemological notion was that all knowledge is rooted in action, and for a long time, he identified action with transformation. What is known is that which remains constant under transformatory action. This book represents a fundamental reformulation of that point of view. Alongside transformatory schemes, Piaget now presents evidence that nontransformatory actions -- comparisons that create morphisms and categories among diverse situations constitute a necessary and complementary instrument of knowledge. This work aims to elucidate that insight experimentally and theoretically and to understand the developmental interaction of comparing and transforming as knowledge is constructed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This first English translation of Piaget's work includes studies of children's understanding of geometric forms, machines, and abstract concepts. It contains a clear statement of his mature position on continuity with biology as well as with the history of ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Piaget,Gil Henriques\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0805803009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805803006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Psychology Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Jean Piaget","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086877536511,"sku":"9780805803006","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f074a44c-50f6-41db-851b-66832f6b8d17.jpg?v=1769097094","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/morphisms-and-categories-jean-piaget-9780805803006","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}