The child as a Cartesian thinker : children's reasonings about metaphysical aspects of reality / / Eugene V. Subbotsky

• Autore: Subbotsky E. V (Eugene V. Subbotsky)
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.413
• Soggetto topico: Reasoning in children; Reality in children
• Note generali: First published in 1996 by Psychology Press.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Child as a Philosopher; Studies of Children's Metaphysical Thinking in Developmental Psychology; Descartes' ""Meditation on First Philosophy"" as a Framework for the Study of Children's Metaphysical Judgements; Chapter 2. Children and Cartesian Metaphysics: An Experimental Study of Children's Metaphysical Reasonings; Dialogue 1: The Introduction; Dialogue 2: Discussing the Possibility of Questioning the Adequacy of the Perceptive Images of Objects and the Existence of the External World ; Dialogue 3: Examining Children's Capacity to Doubt Their Own Individual ExistenceDialogue 4: The Acknowledgement of the Conceptual Difference and Empirical Inseparable Unity Between Mind and Body; Dialogue 5: Definition of the Criterion of Truth and Classification of Types of Knowledge; Dialogue 6: Judgements About the Almighty Subject; Dialogue 7: The Distinction Between Physical Objects and the Subjective Images They Produce: Judgements About Dreams and Reality; Concluding Remarks: Children's Reasonings on the Metaphysics of the World ; Chapter 3. Children's Judgements About the Metaphysical Aspects of a Human BeingDialogue 1: ""Psychology"" ; Dialogue 2: ""Freedom""; Dialogue 3: ""Faust""; Dialogue 4: ""Unconscious""; Dialogue 5: ""Inner World""; Dialogue 6: ""Eternal Life""; Dialogue 7: ""Reality""; Concluding Remarks: Children's Reasonings About the Metaphysics of Human Beings; Chapter 4. The Development of Metaphysical Knowledge in Children: A General View; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Originally published in 1996, this book presents and analyses children's reasonings about fundamental metaphysical problems. The first part describes dialogues with children that were constructed on the basis of Descartes' Mediations on First Philosophy and which look at children's ideas about the relationships between true and false knowledge, mental images and physical objects, mind and body, personal existence and the external world, dreams and reality, and the existence of the Supreme Being, among others. The second part of the book draws on concepts that children of various ages have abou
• Titolo autorizzato: The child as a Cartesian thinker
• ISBN: 1-315-69301-1; 1-317-43506-0; 1-317-43505-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818711103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Psychology revivals.