The Child As a Cartesian Thinker : Children's Reasonings about Metaphysical Aspects of Reality.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Child as a Philosopher -- Studies of Children's Metaphysical Thinking in Developmental Psychology -- Descartes' "Meditation on First Philosophy" as a Framework for the Study of Children's Metaphysical Judgements -- Chapter 2. Children and Cartesian Metaphysics: An Experimental Study of Children's Metaphysical Reasonings -- Dialogue 1: The Introduction -- Dialogue 2: Discussing the Possibility of Questioning the Adequacy of the Perceptive Images of Objects and the Existence of the External World -- Dialogue 3: Examining Children's Capacity to Doubt Their Own Individual Existence -- Dialogue 4: The Acknowledgement of the Conceptual Difference and Empirical Inseparable Unity Between Mind and Body -- Dialogue 5: Definition of the Criterion of Truth and Classification of Types of Knowledge -- Dialogue 6: Judgements About the Almighty Subject -- Dialogue 7: The Distinction Between Physical Objects and the Subjective Images They Produce: Judgements About Dreams and Reality -- Concluding Remarks: Children's Reasonings on the Metaphysics of the World -- Chapter 3. Children's Judgements About the Metaphysical Aspects of a Human Being -- Dialogue 1: "Psychology -- Dialogue 2: "Freedom -- Dialogue 3: "Faust -- Dialogue 4: "Unconscious -- Dialogue 5: "Inner World -- Dialogue 6: "Eternal Life -- Dialogue 7: "Reality -- Concluding Remarks: Children's Reasonings About the Metaphysics of Human Beings -- Chapter 4. The Development of Metaphysical Knowledge in Children: A General View -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Originally published in 1996, this book presents and analyses children's reasonings about fundamental metaphysical problems.

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