Jean Piaget: A Most Outrageous DeceptionJean Piaget is often considered to be one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century in the field of cognition. The author of this book challenges Piaget's frequent dual use of the meanings of words within the same paragraph. Extensive comparisons and examples of this extraordinary phenomenon are presented. Conclusions are offered to explain Piaget's intent. Contents: Introduction; The Absolute Subject; Piaget's Dual System; The Marvellous Monad; Activities of the Absolute; Appendix; Bibliography. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO PIAGETS METAPHYSICAL THEORY | 1 |
DIFFICULTIES TO BE OVERCOME | 3 |
PIAGET MEETS HEGELS ABSOLUTE | 4 |
IRRECONCILABLE MOTIVATIONS | 6 |
A FEARSOME PESSIMISTIC THEORY | 7 |
SPONTANEOUS DEVELOPMENT | 13 |
LOGIC AS OPERATIONAL ACTIVITY | 15 |
METAPHYSICAL ACTION VERSUS PHYSICAL ACTION | 17 |
THE ABSOLUTE ENTITY AS SUBJECT | 130 |
PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE VERSUS LOGICOMATHEMATICAL EXPERIENCE | 132 |
THE PHYSICAL SUBJECT VERSUS THE METAPHYSICAL SUBJECT | 134 |
FORMAL THOUGHT | 136 |
THE ABSOLUTE ENTITY AS IMMANENT SUBJECT | 138 |
THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL SUBJECT | 140 |
THE ABSOLUTE ENTITY AS STRUCTURE | 143 |
EXPLICATORY FUNCTION AND IMPLICATORY FUNCTION | 147 |
AN ALIEN VIEW OF PIAGET | 21 |
WHY PIAGET CANNOT ACCEPT NATURAL SCIENCE | 23 |
THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK | 24 |
PIAGETS DUAL SYSTEM | 25 |
THE MARVELOUS MONAD | 26 |
THE ABSOLUTE SUBJECT | 32 |
ACTIVITIES OF THE ABSOLUTE SUBJECT | 36 |
PIAGETS DUAL SYSTEM | 43 |
TWO KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE | 44 |
A MULTIPLICITY OF SYNONYMS AND VERBALISMS | 46 |
TWO MINDS | 49 |
ANOTHER KIND OF ATOM | 53 |
ANOTHER KIND OF SPACE | 55 |
THE LIVING STRUCTURE SANS HEART SANS BRAIN | 57 |
THE TWO SUBJECTS | 58 |
TRUE CAUSE IS NOT PHYSICAL | 64 |
AN ALIEN EXPERIENCE AN ALIEN SCIENCE | 65 |
SPIRITUAL OBJECTS AND PHYSICAL OBJECTS | 68 |
TWO KINDS OF DEVELOPMENT | 69 |
PSYCHOLOGICAL NECESSITY AND INVARIANT FUNCTION VERSUS PHYSICAL BIOLOGY | 70 |
SPECIFIC HEREDITY VERSUS GENERAL HEREDITY | 73 |
VICARIOUS ACTIONS AND FUNCTIONS SIGNIFY DUAL ENTITIES | 76 |
PURE MOVEMENTS OR ACTIONS WHICH DO NOT TAKE TIME | 80 |
BRAINLESS KNOWLEDGE | 81 |
A NONPHYSICAL ONTOGENETIC DEVELOPMENT | 82 |
THE TWO EGOS THE TWO WORLDS THE TWO SOCIETIES AND THE TWO CIVILIZATIONS | 83 |
THE MAVELOUS MONAD | 89 |
THE DISINGENUOUS ROLE OF EXPERIMENT | 91 |
THE PURPOSE OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE | 92 |
HEGELS CONCEPT OF PHYSICAL EXISTENCE | 94 |
AN UNUSUAL WAY TO DESCRIBE MONADS | 96 |
WHY PIAGET HAS THE DUTY TO PREVARICAT | 98 |
THE OTHER MEANING OF EGOCENTRISM | 99 |
LYING IS GOOD BUT PHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE IS BAD | 101 |
PIAGET REJECTS NATURAL SCIENCE | 102 |
THE ABSOLUTE VERSUS THE JUDEOCHRISTIAN GOD | 103 |
THE CREATION OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE | 104 |
THE MEASUREMENT OF ASSIMILATORY PROGRESS | 106 |
PIAGETIAN CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS | 107 |
REACTION OF THE SURROUNDING MEDIUM | 109 |
NATURAL PHENOMENA ARE PRODUCED BY MONADS | 110 |
MONADS THE BASIS OF MEMORY | 111 |
CHILD PHYSICS IS BASED ON MONADS | 112 |
AIR IS ALIVE | 113 |
OBSERVATION OF A PHYSICAL SUBSTANCE CANNOT LEAD TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF METAPHYSICAL SUBSTANCE | 114 |
THE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF LIFE IS BASED ON AIR | 115 |
THE LIVING MONADS ACCOUNT FOR FORCE AND EGO | 116 |
MONADS THE BASIS OF THOUGHT AND DREAMS | 117 |
USES AIR AGAIN TO ARRIVE AT QUASIMAGIC SUBSTANCE | 118 |
IMMANENT MONADS TEACH THE CHILD ABOUT THEIR ATOMIC NATURE | 120 |
THE ABSOLUTE SUBJECT | 125 |
PIAGETS PHILOSOPHY OF A NONHUMAN ABSOLUTE | 129 |
ENDOGENOUS OR NORMATIVE STRUCTURES VERSUS EXOGENOUS OR PHYSICAL STRUCTURES | 149 |
FORM VERSUS MATTER | 151 |
THE CONTINUUM OF UNOBSERVABLE CORPUSCLES | 153 |
THE LIVING FIELD OR LATTICEGROUP OF MONADS | 154 |
THE STRUCTURE IS NONCONTINGENT AND ERROR FREE | 156 |
USE ONE CHARACTERISTIC OF HIS SYSTEM TO PROVE ANOTHER CHARACTERISTIC OF HIS SYSTEM | 157 |
GENETIC PSYCHOLOGY DESCRIBES THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ETERNAL STRUCTURE | 159 |
THE PERMANENT IMMANENT STRUCTURE | 160 |
THE ABSOLUTE ENTITY AS SPACE | 165 |
PIAGET BEGINS | 167 |
THE SPATIAL CONTAINER IS THE OPERATIONAL MIND | 168 |
THE SPATIAL CONTINUUM PRODUCES LOGICOMATHEMATICAL OPERATIONS | 171 |
PHYSICAL MOVEMENT AND METAPHYSICAL MOVEMENT | 173 |
FLAVELLS REJECTION OF PIAGETS METAPHYSICAL PSYCHOLOGY | 174 |
THE PERMANENT IMMANENT SPACE | 179 |
ACTIVITIES OF THE ABSOLUTE | 185 |
PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS ARE INTRINSICALLY INVALID | 190 |
THE STAGES OF METAPHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT | 194 |
A SURVEY OF VARIOUS WAYS PIAGET UTILIZES TH CONCEPT OF STAGE | 196 |
THE SIX STAGES IN DEVELOPMENT OF THE OBJECT CONCEPT | 201 |
THE SIX STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPATIAL FIELD AND GROUPS | 204 |
THE SIX STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAUSALITY | 205 |
THE SIX STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEMPORAL FIELD | 207 |
CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE FOUR SETS OF SIX STAGES | 208 |
THE ABSOLUTE SUBJECT DEVELOPS HIMSELF | 212 |
CONSTRUCTION AS DEVELOPMENT OF THE ABSOLUTE SUBJECT | 220 |
KNOWLEDGE AS THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS | 227 |
SCIENCE AS THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS | 235 |
THE REVERSAL OF REALITY | 245 |
THE METAPHYSICAL PRODUCTION OF NUMBERS | 252 |
THE METAPHYSICAL ORIGIN OF FRACTIONS AND PROPORTION | 257 |
WORD MAGIC | 260 |
THE MENTAL IMAGE AS A PRECURSOR OF MAGIC | 261 |
MAGIC AS AN EFFICACIOUS REALITY | 264 |
PIAGETS PROFESSIONAL OUTPUT AN EXTENDED WORK OF MAGIC | 265 |
Appendices | 267 |
Appendix B Group | 270 |
Appendix C Schemata | 274 |
Appendix D Structure of Thought | 279 |
Appendix E Intelligence | 282 |
Appendix F System | 285 |
Appendix G Life | 287 |
Appendix H Self Ego 1 | 291 |
Appendix I Substance Person | 297 |
Appendix J Totality Whole Universal | 301 |
Appendix K Organism Organ | 304 |
Appendix L Organization | 306 |
Appendix M Structure | 308 |
Bibliography | 315 |
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Common terms and phrases
Absolute Subject abstraction actions activity aspect assimilation atomism author's capitalization author's italics become beginning Beth & Piaget Biological Body of Monads called causality child Cognitive completely composed concept considered construction coordination created depend described dialectic direct Entity everything existence experiments explain external fact Field force Form Formal function Group Hegel human ibid idea immanent immanent Subject important individual Inhelder & Piaget Intelligence italics and capitalization kind Knowledge Living logic Logico-Mathematical Structures magic Mathematical means Mechanism mental metaphysical Mind movements natural science never objects observed operations opposite Organization passage person philosophy physical reality physical universe Piaget & Inhelder possible problem produce progressive Psychology quote reader reason refers regarding regulations relations result reversible says Schemata Space Spatial stages statement Structure Piaget synonyms System theory things Thought transformations true understand universe Whole