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Jean Piaget Symposium Series: Volume 24
PIAGET, EVOLUTION, AND DEVELOPMENT
Edited by
Jonas Langer
University of California, Berkeley
Melanie Killen
University of Maryland, College Park
A Volume in the Jean Piaget Symposia Series
Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, this volume of explorations by anthropologists, biologists, historians of science, paleontologists, and psychologists seeks further understanding of the mechanisms of mental development. It focuses on the comparative phylogeny, ontogeny, and history of mentation--most notably on the comparative onset and offset ages, velocity, extent, sequencing, and organization of thought, symbol, and value development. As it has been throughout its history, the guiding purpose of this comparative research continues to be determining the possibilities that evolution opens up for the ontogenetic origins, development, and history of mentation, as well as the contraints that evolution imposes on mental development. The contributors focused on three comparative developments for which there are increasing data, cognitive, social, and cultural development. The varied findings and approaches reported in this volume reveal that comparative research on mental development is in a phase of differentiation and integration. Far from being global and fused, the comparative study of mental development is a flowering field of diverse empirical phenomena, scholarly topics, and theoretical perspectives on its evolution and history.
Audience
A graduate text in comparative development, Piaget, and evolution; cognitive
developmentalists and primatologists, and comparative psychologists.
Contents: Preface. J. Langer, M. Killen, The Comparative Study of Mental Development. Part I: Cognitive Development. M.L. McKinney, Cognitive Evolution by Extending Brain Development: On Recapitulation, Progress, and Other Heresies. J. Langer, Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Origins of Cognition: Classification. F.Y. Dor'e, S. Goulet, The Comparative Analysis of Object Knowledge. A. Whiten, Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of the Mindreading System. Part II: Social Development. A.E. Russon, R.W. Mitchell, L. Lefebvre, E. Abravanel, The Comparative Evolution of Imitation. S. Savage-Rumbaugh, Scientific Schizophrenia With Regard to the Language Act. S.T. Parker, The Evolution and Development of Self-Knowledge: Adaptations for Assessing the Nature of Self Relative to That of Conspecifics. M. Cords, M. Killen, Conflict Resolution in Human and Nonhuman Primates. Part III: Cultural Development. M. Tomasello, Social Cognition and the Evolution of Culture. P. Damerow, Prehistory and Cognitive Development. E. Turiel, Notes From the Underground: Culture, Conflict, and Subversion.
0-8058-2210-0 [cloth] / 1998 / 328pp. / $55.00
