The Child's Conception of Physical Causality

by Piaget, Jean

• ISBN13: 9780415209984
• ISBN10: 0415209986
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in theInternational Library of Psychologyseries is available upon request.

Table of Contents

SECTION I EXPLANATION OF MOVEMENT	1	(133)
Experiments Concerning The Nature of Air	3	(29)
Pressure of the hands	5	(9)
The air of the punctured ball, of the tube, and of the pump	14	(4)
The making of air and the movement of Projectiles	18	(7)
Centrifugal force	25	(7)
The Origin Of Wind And Of Breath	32	(28)
The formation of wind	33	(19)
Breathing	52	(8)
Movement of the Clouds and the Heavenly Bodies	60	(27)
The movement of clouds	61	(12)
The movement of the heavenly bodies	73	(14)
Water Currents and Movements Due to Weight	87	(27)
The waves of the lake	87	(6)
The current of rivers	93	(10)
The suspension of the sun and moon, and the fall of heavy bodies to the ground	103	(11)
The Child's Idea of Force	114	(19)
How the child explains movement	114	(6)
Definition of the idea of force	120	(6)
Origin of the idea of force	126	(7)
SECTION II PREDICTION AND EXPLANATION	133	(62)
The Floating of Boats	135	(29)
First and second stages: boats float for moral or dynamic reasons	136	(5)
Third stage: boats float owing to their own or to acquired movement and because they are light in relation to the total mass of water	141	(9)
Boats float for static reasons	150	(14)
The Level of Water	164	(16)
First stage: the water rises because of the weight of the submerged body	165	(5)
Second and third stages: the role of volume is understood and made explicit	170	(3)
Conclusions	173	(3)
Prediction and explanation of the phenomenon of communicating vessels in children from 8 to 12 years old	176	(4)
The Problem of Shadows	180	(15)
First stage: shadow is a substance emanating from the object and participating with night	181	(5)
Second stage: shadow is a substance emanating from the object alone	186	(1)
Third stage: shadow is a substance which flees from light	187	(3)
Conclusions	190	(5)
SECTION III EXPLANATION OF MACHINES	195	(42)
The Mechanism of Bicycles	97	(116)
First stage: the cause of the movement is synthetic	199	(6)
Second stage: the various parts are necessary but unrelated	205	(5)
Third and fourth stages: the search for contacts and mechanical explanation	210	(3)
The Steam-Engine	213	(13)
First stage: the wheel turns because of the fire	215	(5)
Second stage: the wheel turns because of the water	220	(3)
Third stage: the wheel turns because of the steam	223	(3)
Trains, Motor-Cars, And Aeroplanes	226	(11)
Steam-engines and motor-boats	226	(4)
Motor-cars and Aeroplanes	230	(2)
Conclusions	232	(5)
SECTION IV THE CHILD'S CONCEPTION OF REALITY AND CAUSALITY	237	(1)
Summary and conclusion	237	(70)
The child's reality	241	(17)
Causality and the child	258	(15)
The child's idea of law	273	(8)
Assimilation and imitation	281	(10)
Child logic	291	(10)
Logic and reality	301	(6)
Index of Names	307	(1)
Index of Subjects	308