Abstract

This book, a transcript of a conference held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook on May 5-6, 1977, exhibits the liveliness of active discussion among contemporary experts as well as the digressions and lack of focus often found in such discussions. The introduction compares the papers to the spokes of a wheel with Piaget's epistemology at its center; after an opening summary by Hans Furth, each writer draws a relationship between Piaget and some other thinker, so that the essays form relatively independent forays into philosophical psychology.