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Reviews the book, Beyond Piaget: A philosophical psychology by Jean-Claude Brief (1983). Dr. Brief's book is a serious attempt by a philosopher to draw epistemological and general psychological implications from Piaget's life work. In substance the book offers Dr. Brief's own neo-Piagetian model of cognitive development and genetic epistemology. Dr. Brief's is a purely theoretical reformulation of Piaget's enterprise. Its interest for psychologists lies in the fact that this is a philosophically more explicit reformulation, quite similar to other currently popular neo-Piagetian views. The book is well written, but psychologists may find, particularly in the second half, that the notions and considerations discussed are not explicit enough, or familiar enough, to add clarity to their understanding. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
