Abstraction and Representation: Essays on the Cultural Evolution of Thinking

by Peter Damerow

Book Overview

The author of this book is affiliated with the Center for Development and Socialization of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Ed- ucation in Berlin and heads its program on culture and cognition which de- votes its labors to the reconstruction of scientific concepts through history in a perspective of what might be called "historical epistemology." He is also a member of a related research group in the newly founded Max Planck Institute...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792338162
• ISBN13: 9780792338161
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"