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Description

1. x, 326 pages : illustrations

Summary

1. The idea behind this book is that developing a conception of the physical world and a conception of mind is impossible without the exercise of agency, meaning "the power to alter at will one's perceptual inputs." The thesis is derived from a philosophical account of the role of agency in knowledge - the first time this has been attempted in the context of developmental psychology.
2. The book is divided into three parts. In Part One, Russell argues that purely "representational" theories of mind and of mental development have been overvalued, thereby clearing the ground for the book's central thesis. In Part Two, he proposes that, because objective experience depends upon the experience of agency, the development of the "object concept" in human infants is grounded in the development of executive-attentional capacities. In Part Three, an analysis of the links between agency and self-awareness generates an original theory of the nature of certain stage-like transitions in mental functioning and of the relationship between executive and mentalising deficits in autism. The book will be of particular interest to students and researchers in cognitive-developmental psychology, to philosophers of mind, and to anybody with an interest in cognitive science.

Subject

1. Piaget, Jean, (1896-1980)
2. Cognition in children
3. Developmental psychology
4. Agent (Philosophy)
5. Cognition
6. Children
7. Infants
8. Psychology
9. Transference (Psychology)
10. Child development
11. Intellect
12. Cognition
13. Child
14. Human Development
15. Infant
16. Psychology
17. Transference, Psychology
18. Child Development
19. Intelligence
20. cognition
21. children (people by age group)
22. infants
23. psychology
24. Intellect
25. Infants
26. Children
27. Child development
28. Cognition in children
29. Developmental psychology
30. Kognitive Entwicklung
31. Psychologie
32. Selektive Wahrnehmung
33. Wahrnehmungsurteil
34. Willensakt
35. Handlung
36. Entwicklungspsychologie
37. Denken
38. Handelen
39. Cognitieve ontwikkeling
40. Philosophie de l'esprit
41. Psychologie cognitive
42. Sciences cognitives
43. Théorie de l'action
44. Cognition > Chez l'enfant
45. Psychologie du développement

Contents

1. pt. 1. Symbols, models, and connections -- pt. 2. Knowledge of objects -- pt. 3. Action and our knowledge of minds -- Coda: Looking back and going forward.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-315) and index.