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Abstraction and Representation

Essays on the Cultural Evolution of Thinking

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Peter Damerow

    1. Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin, Germany

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 175)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. On Action and Cognition

    1. Action and Cognition in Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology and in Hegel’s Logic

      • Peter Damerow
      Pages 1-27

    2. Representation and Meaning

      • Peter Damerow
      Pages 29-70

  5. On Historical Epistemology

    1. Abstraction and Representation

      • Peter Damerow
      Pages 371-381

    2. The Concept of Labor in Historical Materialism and the Theory of Socio-Historical Development

      • Peter Damerow
      Pages 383-394

    3. Tools of Science

      • Wolfgang Lefèvre
      Pages 395-404

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 405-418
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About this book

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 for the History of Science in Berlin. Perhaps this double affiliation throws some light on the scope of Damerow's scientific interests. In any event it will explain why representatives of both these institutions join in an effort to introduce Peter Damerow's writings to an English speaking audi­ ence. Damerow's scholarship ranges across widely different areas including philosophy and history of science, psychology, and education. Among his fields of expertise are the emergence of writing, early Babylonian mathe­ matics, the history of arithmetic, the relationship between pure and applied mathematics, the theory and methods of mathematics instruction, the tran­ sition from preclassical to classical mechanics, and the history and theory of relativity.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin, Germany

    Peter Damerow

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Abstraction and Representation

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on the Cultural Evolution of Thinking

  • Authors: Peter Damerow

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8624-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3816-1Published: 31 December 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4644-4Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8624-5Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 418

  • Additional Information: Originally published in German

  • Topics: History, general, Epistemology, History of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics Education

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