Social Interaction and the Development of Knowledge

by Carpendale; Jeremy I.M.

• ISBN13: 9780805841244
• ISBN10: 0805841245
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Written by highly respected theorists in psychology and philosophy, the chapters in this book explicate and address fundamental epistemological issues involved in the problem of the relationship between the individual and the collective. Different theoretical viewpoints are presented on this relationship, as well as between the nature of rationality and morality, relativism and universalism, and enculturation and internalization. Many chapters also highlight similarities and differences between these alternative frameworks and Piaget's theory, and thus correct the misperception that Piaget had nothing to say about the social dimension of development. Other chapters focus on the implications of these debates for the important topic areas of pedagogy, moral development, and the development of social understanding in infancy and childhood. Although Piaget's theory is presented and evaluated by some of the chapters in this collection, the authors remain critical and do not shy away from revising or extending Piaget's theory whenever it is deemed necessary. Though the topic covered in this book is of fundamental importance in the social sciences, it is rarely addressed in a sustained way as it is in this collection of chapters. The book benefits social scientists interested in fundamental epistemological issues, especially as these concern the relationship between the individual and the collective, with implications for the conceptualization of morality and rationality.

Table of Contents

1 Social Interaction and the Development of Rationality and Morality: An Introduction	1	(18)
Jeremy I.M. Carpendale and Ulrich Müller
2 A Relational and Embodied Perspective on Resolving Psychology's Antinomies	19	(26)
Willis F. Overton
3 Piaget's Social Epistemology	45	(22)
Richard F. Kitchener
4 Individualism and Collectivism: A Dynamic Systems Interpretation of Piaget's Interactionism	67	(20)
Jan Boom
5 Coordinating Operative and Figurative Knowledge: Piaget, Vygotsky, and Beyond	87	(24)
Tamer G. Amin and Jaan Valsiner
6 The Social Ontology of Persons	111	(22)
Mark H. Bickhard
7 The Development and Overcoming of "Universal Pragmatics" in Piaget's Thinking	133	(22)
Rainer Döbert
8 A Bridge too Far: On the Relations Between Moral and Secular Reasoning	155	(20)
Bryan W. Sokol and Michael J. Chandler
9 Developmental Epistemology and Education	175	(20)
Leslie Smith
10 Social Interaction and the Construction of Moral and Social Knowledge	195	(20)
Larry Nucci
11 From Joint Activity to Joint Attention: A Relational Approach to Social Development in Infancy	215	(24)
Ulrich Müller and Jeremy I.M. Carpendale
12 Piaget's Theory and Children's Development of Prosocial Behavior: The Force of Negation	239	(18)
Orlando Lourenço
13 Wittgenstein's Internalistic Logic and Children's Theories of Mind	257	(20)
Timothy P. Racine
Author Index	277	(8)
Subject Index	285