Richard F Kitchener
Biographic Data
| ID | 271266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard F Kitchener |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard F |
| FAMILY NAME | Kitchener |
| SIGNATURE | KITCHENER R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2948-7767 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When Jean Piaget met Susan and Nathan Isaacs
A signature event in the intellectual life of Jean Piaget occurred when he met Susan and Nathan Isaacs. Although the Isaacs were supporters of much of Piaget's theoretical and empirical work, they also advanced substantial objections to his methodology, empirical results, and theoretical interpretations. Susan Isaacs' empirical observations provided much of the evidence in support of their different views of proper methodology, intellectual devel…
Piaget’s Different Intelligence Test: From IQ Tests to Operatory Intelligence
A signature event in the history of psychology occurred in 1919 when Jean Piaget was asked to standardize Cyril Burt’s tests of intelligence on Parisian children. Impressed by the errors students made, Piaget studied the underlying reasoning process of these children. This led to Piaget ‘s new méthode clinique for studying the intelligence of children and its development. But why was there a need for such standardization? How did Burt’s intellige…
Contents, Vol. 39, No. 5, 1996
The Nature of the Social for Piaget and Vygotsky
According to the standard interpretation concerning the role of the social in the theories of Vygotsky and Piaget, Piaget is a biological individualist whereas Vygotsky is a sociocultural collectivist. The mental is internal and private for Piaget but external and public for Vygotsky. Although this view appears to be mistaken, it does raise the question of how Piaget and Vygotsky conceive of the nature of the social in relation to the individual.…
The Cognitive Development of Science
Contents, Vol. 28, 1985
Predetermined versus Probabilistic Epigenesis
Lerner (1980) claims Kitchener (1978) has not adequately distinguished the various uses of the concept of epigenesis, that multiple definitions of the concept exist in developmental biology and psychology, and that I have not adequately distinguished developmental description from explanation. I show that Lerner is confused about the description vs. explanation issue, that there are not multiple definitions of epigenesis in biology, that although…
Holism and the Organismic Model in Developmental Psychology
Holism is a central feature of the organismic model of development. Although there has been some discussion of holism and how it differs from elementarism, a more detailed examination of it is necessary. Two types of holism are distinguished: methodological holism and metaphysical holism. Methodological holism is a claim that the organism qua organism should be studied. Metaphysical holism is the belief (I) that the whole is not the additive sum …
Epigenesis: The Role of Biological Models in Developmental Psychology
This paper analyzes the concept of epigenesis and suggests it does not attribute to the environment a sufficiently important causal role. Developmental biologists characterize epigenesis as a model of development involving: (1) a causal sequence of events, (2) a series of stages, (3) progressive differentiation, (4) increasing complexity and organization, and (5) emergent properties. Several developmental biologists claim that epigenesis is compa…
Holistic Structuralism, Elementarism and Piaget’s Theory of ‘Relationalism’
A key issue dividing holists and elementarists concerns the connection between the whole, its parts, and the relations between the parts. Piaget is sometimes classed as a holist and sometimes as an elementarist but he advocates a third position – relationalism – in which neither the whole is primary, nor the parts, but the relations between the parts. After contrasting holism, elementarism, and Piaget’s relationalism, I then suggest Piaget’s view…
Jean Piaget: The Unknown Sociologist
Genetic epistemology, equilibration and the rationality of scientific change
Jean Piaget and Rolando Garcia. Psychogenèse et histoire des sciences. Paris: Flammarion, 1983, 304 pp. 120 FF in France
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Is Genetic Epistemology Possible
Several philosophers have questioned the possibility of a genetic epistemology, an epistemology concerned with the developmental transitions between successive states of knowledge in the individual person. Since most arguments against the possibility of a genetic epistemology crucially depend upon a sharp distinction between the genesis of an idea and its justification, I argue that current philosophy of science raises serious questions about the…
Bibliography of philosophical work on Piaget
Genetic epistemology, history of science and genetic psychology
Against Behaviouralism: A Critique of Behavioural Science
The Nature and Scope of Genetic Epistemology
Although the theory of Jean Piaget is correctly characterized as genetic epistemology, its nature and scope remain unclear and controversial. An examination of Piaget's Introduction à l'épistémologie génétique indicates that Piaget relies heavily upon a model of comparative anatomy and, consequently, that genetic epistemology is about both the history of science and individual development. This biological model seems to be the basis for Piaget's …
Piaget's Social Psychology
Piaget's social psychology is not widely discussed among psychologists, partly because much of it is still contained in untranslated French works. In this article I summarize the main lines of Piaget's social psychology and briefly indicate its relation to current theories in social psychology. Rejecting both Durkheim's sociological holism and Tarde's individualism, Piaget advances a sociological relativism (relationalism) in which all social fac…
Genetic epistemology, normative epistemology, and psychologism
Are there Molar Psychological Laws
Piaget's Social Psychology
Piaget's social psychology is not widely discussed among psychologists, partly because much of it is still contained in untranslated French works. In this article I summarize the main lines of Piaget's social psychology and briefly indicate its relation to current theories in social psychology. Rejecting both Durkheim's sociological holism and Tarde's individualism, Piaget advances a sociological relativism (relationalism) in which all social fac…
The Nature and Scope of Genetic Epistemology
Although the theory of Jean Piaget is correctly characterized as genetic epistemology, its nature and scope remain unclear and controversial. An examination of Piaget's Introduction à l'épistémologie génétique indicates that Piaget relies heavily upon a model of comparative anatomy and, consequently, that genetic epistemology is about both the history of science and individual development. This biological model seems to be the basis for Piaget's …
Genetic epistemology, normative epistemology, and psychologism
Genetic epistemology, history of science and genetic psychology
Are there Molar Psychological Laws
Genetic epistemology, normative epistemology, and psychologism
The Nature and Scope of Genetic Epistemology
Although the theory of Jean Piaget is correctly characterized as genetic epistemology, its nature and scope remain unclear and controversial. An examination of Piaget's Introduction à l'épistémologie génétique indicates that Piaget relies heavily upon a model of comparative anatomy and, consequently, that genetic epistemology is about both the history of science and individual development. This biological model seems to be the basis for Piaget's …
Piaget's Social Psychology
Piaget's social psychology is not widely discussed among psychologists, partly because much of it is still contained in untranslated French works. In this article I summarize the main lines of Piaget's social psychology and briefly indicate its relation to current theories in social psychology. Rejecting both Durkheim's sociological holism and Tarde's individualism, Piaget advances a sociological relativism (relationalism) in which all social fac…
Against Behaviouralism: A Critique of Behavioural Science
Bibliography of philosophical work on Piaget
Genetic epistemology, history of science and genetic psychology
Genetic epistemology, equilibration and the rationality of scientific change
Jean Piaget and Rolando Garcia. Psychogenèse et histoire des sciences. Paris: Flammarion, 1983, 304 pp. 120 FF in France
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Is Genetic Epistemology Possible
Several philosophers have questioned the possibility of a genetic epistemology, an epistemology concerned with the developmental transitions between successive states of knowledge in the individual person. Since most arguments against the possibility of a genetic epistemology crucially depend upon a sharp distinction between the genesis of an idea and its justification, I argue that current philosophy of science raises serious questions about the…
Jean Piaget: The Unknown Sociologist
Contents, Vol. 28, 1985
Predetermined versus Probabilistic Epigenesis
Lerner (1980) claims Kitchener (1978) has not adequately distinguished the various uses of the concept of epigenesis, that multiple definitions of the concept exist in developmental biology and psychology, and that I have not adequately distinguished developmental description from explanation. I show that Lerner is confused about the description vs. explanation issue, that there are not multiple definitions of epigenesis in biology, that although…
Holism and the Organismic Model in Developmental Psychology
Holism is a central feature of the organismic model of development. Although there has been some discussion of holism and how it differs from elementarism, a more detailed examination of it is necessary. Two types of holism are distinguished: methodological holism and metaphysical holism. Methodological holism is a claim that the organism qua organism should be studied. Metaphysical holism is the belief (I) that the whole is not the additive sum …
Epigenesis: The Role of Biological Models in Developmental Psychology
This paper analyzes the concept of epigenesis and suggests it does not attribute to the environment a sufficiently important causal role. Developmental biologists characterize epigenesis as a model of development involving: (1) a causal sequence of events, (2) a series of stages, (3) progressive differentiation, (4) increasing complexity and organization, and (5) emergent properties. Several developmental biologists claim that epigenesis is compa…
Holistic Structuralism, Elementarism and Piaget’s Theory of ‘Relationalism’
A key issue dividing holists and elementarists concerns the connection between the whole, its parts, and the relations between the parts. Piaget is sometimes classed as a holist and sometimes as an elementarist but he advocates a third position – relationalism – in which neither the whole is primary, nor the parts, but the relations between the parts. After contrasting holism, elementarism, and Piaget’s relationalism, I then suggest Piaget’s view…
Contents, Vol. 39, No. 5, 1996
The Nature of the Social for Piaget and Vygotsky
According to the standard interpretation concerning the role of the social in the theories of Vygotsky and Piaget, Piaget is a biological individualist whereas Vygotsky is a sociocultural collectivist. The mental is internal and private for Piaget but external and public for Vygotsky. Although this view appears to be mistaken, it does raise the question of how Piaget and Vygotsky conceive of the nature of the social in relation to the individual.…
The Cognitive Development of Science
Piaget’s Different Intelligence Test: From IQ Tests to Operatory Intelligence
A signature event in the history of psychology occurred in 1919 when Jean Piaget was asked to standardize Cyril Burt’s tests of intelligence on Parisian children. Impressed by the errors students made, Piaget studied the underlying reasoning process of these children. This led to Piaget ‘s new méthode clinique for studying the intelligence of children and its development. But why was there a need for such standardization? How did Burt’s intellige…
When Jean Piaget met Susan and Nathan Isaacs
A signature event in the intellectual life of Jean Piaget occurred when he met Susan and Nathan Isaacs. Although the Isaacs were supporters of much of Piaget's theoretical and empirical work, they also advanced substantial objections to his methodology, empirical results, and theoretical interpretations. Susan Isaacs' empirical observations provided much of the evidence in support of their different views of proper methodology, intellectual devel…
Psychology (18 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Cognitive science (6 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Cognitive development (5 works)