Norms in Human Development
Published on 19. March 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-521-10329-9 (ISBN)
Description
The distinction between norms and facts is long-standing in providing a challenge for psychology. Norms exist as directives, commands, rules, customs and ideals, playing a constitutive role in human action and thought. Norms lay down 'what has to be' (the necessary, possible or impossible) and 'what has to be done' (the obligatory, the permitted or the forbidden) and so go beyond the 'is' of causality. During two millennia, norms made an essential contribution to accounts of the mind, yet the twentieth century witnessed an abrupt change in the science of psychology where norms were typically either excluded altogether or reduced to causes. The central argument in this book is twofold. Firstly, the approach in twentieth-century psychology is flawed. Secondly, norms operating interdependently with causes can be investigated empirically and theoretically in cognition, culture and morality. Human development is a norm-laden process.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
4 Tables, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-10329-9 (9780521103299)
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Leslie Smith | Jacques Voneche
Norms in Human Development
E-Book
11/2006
1st Edition
Cambridge University Press
€27.99
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Persons
Leslie Smith is Professor Emeritus, Lancaster University and is currently based in the Lake District as a freelance researcher. Jacques Voneche is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychology at the University of Geneva and Director of the Archives Jean Piaget.
Content
1. Norms in human development: introduction Leslie Smith; Part I. Norms and development in epistemology: 2. The implicit normativity of developmental psychology Jacques Voneche; 3. Developmental normativity and normative development Mark H. Bickhard; 4. Genetic epistemology: naturalistic epistemology vs normative epistemology Richard F. Kitchener; 5. Norms and normative facts in human development Leslie Smith; Part II. Norms in moral and social development: 6. Contextualising moral judgement Lutz H. Eckensberger; 7. The development of obligations and responsibilities in cultural context Monika Keller; 8. The multiplicity of social norms: the case for psychological constructivism and social epistemologies Elliot Turiel; Part III. Norms in cognitive development: 9. Can psychology be a quantitative science, or is Kant right after all? Normative issues in psychometrics Peter C. M. Molenaar; 10. Norms and intuitions in the assessment of chance Vittorio Girotto and Michel Gonzalez; 11. Making conditional inferences: the interplay between knowledge and logic Henry Markovits; References; Index.