The Growth Of Logical Thinking From Childhood To Adolescence: AN ESSAY ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF FORMAL OPERATIONAL STRUCTURES

by Piaget, Jean & Inhelder, Brbel

• ISBN13: 9780415210027
• ISBN10: 041521002X
• 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 the International Library of Psychology series is available upon request.

Table of Contents

Translators' Introduction: A Guide for Psychologists	vii
Preface	xxi
PART I The Development of Propositional Logic
The Equality of Angles of Incidence and Reflection and the Operations of Reciprocal Implication	3	(17)
The Law of Floating Bodies and the Elimination of Contradictions	20	(26)
Flexibility and the Operations Mediating the Separation of Variables	46	(21)
The Oscillation of a Pendulum and the Operations of Exclusion	67	(13)
Falling Bodies on an Inclined Plane and Operations of Disjunction	80	(13)
The Role of Invisible Magnetization and the Sixteen Binary Propositional Operations	93	(14)
PART II The Operational Schemata of Formal Logic
Combinations of Colored and Colorless Chemical Bodies	107	(16)
The Conservation of Motion in a Horizontal Plane	123	(10)
Communicating Vessels	133	(15)
Equilibrium in the Hydraulic Press	148	(16)
Equilibrium in the Balance	164	(18)
Hauling Weight on an Inclined Plane	182	(17)
The Projection of Shadows	199	(11)
Centrifugal Force and Compensations	210	(1)
Probable Dispersions and Correlations	210	(35)
PART III The Structural Integration of Formal Thought
Formal Thought from the Equilibrium Standpoint	245	(27)
Concrete and Formal Structures	272	(62)
Adolescent Thinking	334	(17)
Index	351