Die Entwicklung der Kausalität im Kulturvergleich

Kälble, Karl

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“…The replacement of the magical-animistic and theological view by the mechanical view took place both in sciences and philosophy during the same generations, often created by the same protagonists (Oesterdiekhoff, 2000;2016e;2012a;2013a;Fetz, 1982;Piaget, 1975Piaget, , vol. 8-10, 1967De Caprona, 1983;Kälble, 1997;Wenzel, 2013).…”

Section: Piagetian Psychology and The Rise Of Sciencesmentioning

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“…With ten years roughly animism is going to be replaced by the empirical-causal explanations and the mechanical worldview with its discriminations between soul and matter, etc. (Piaget 1959b;Kälble, 1997;Werner, 1948;Bühler, 1930;Hyde, 1990). …”

Section: Foundations Of the Rise Of Sciencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the cosmos functions in a way comparable to a factory ruled by its boss or to an army ruled by its general. Therefore, children´s worldview is animistic, magical and theological by definition (Piaget 1959b;1969;Ellwanger, 1980;Hyde, 1990;Fetz, 1982;Kälble, 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Jean Piaget (1975, vol. 8-10;Piaget and Garcia, 1989) and many of his followers (e.g., Kälble, 1997;De Caprona, 1983;Strauss, 1988;Wenzel, 2013;Oesterdiekhoff, 2011;2013a;2015a) described that the origination of the physical sciences in early modern Europe is explainable only in terms of developmental psychology. This group of authors explained that the lower stages of reason and mind, known as typical characteristics of children, resemble the prescientific ideas of ancient and medieval cultures, peoples and intellectuals, while the features of the fourth stage of human development, the formal-operational stage, corresponds to the peculiarities of the physical sciences of the early modern period.…”

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The Rise of the Physical Sciences in “Stricto Sensu” The Developmental Approach and the History of Sciences

Oesterdiekhoff¹

2017

Physics International

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J. Piaget dedicated several books and articles on the psychogenetic reconstruction of the history of sciences. A couple of disciples followed Piaget´s ideas and reconstructed the history of single disciplines or of some scientific developments in terms of developmental psychology. They found a striking similarity between childish psychological stages and the sciences in their premodern period. Correspondingly, they also found similarities between adolescent psychological stages and early modern sciences. Many data hint at the fact that psychological stage advancements respectively the emergence of the adolescent stage of formal operations during the 17 th century was the cause to the rise of the physical sciences in stricto sensu. The research of Piaget and his followers, however, was not deep enough insofar as they were insecure whether the correspondencies related may concern the theories only or also the minds of the theoreticians (the scientists) themselves. Therefore, the main goal of this article is to demonstrate that the emergence of the formal operational stage took place in the minds of the scientists themselves. It is argued that the cognitive transformations within the minds of the scientists themselves were the origin of the scientific breakthroughs and the emergence of the new disciplines. The article presents the data according to them premodern peoples stood on pre-and concrete operational stages, as the ancient scientists did, too. Then it shows that premodern sciences substantially likewise root in these lower stages, as their adherence to magic and animism already evidence. Consequently, it is argued that the transformation from magical-animistic theories to the sciences in stricto sensu during the 17 th century originates in the rise of the formal operations. The next step is to show how the formation of the disciplines such as physics, astronomy, chemistry and medicine and the accumulation of scientific knowledge already in the first generation directly followed the fresh establishment of the formal operational stage. The conclusion is that the relationship between psychological stage development and the history of sciences is closer and more direct than Piaget and his followers ever described.

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Oesterdiekhoff¹

2017

Physics International

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“…For example, he interpreted the Ionian philosophy and the physics of Aristotle convincingly in terms of developmental psychology, while he referred the rise of sciences "in strictu sensu" and modern philosophy during the 17 th century to the historically freshly grown stage of formal operations, nowadays usually occurring among modern adolescents stepwise between their 12 th and their 20 th year of age. Piaget´s interpretation of the history of philosophy found some successors even in the past few decades (DeCaprona 1983;Fetz 1982;Kälble 1997;Strauss 1988;Habermas 1976;Oesterdiekhoff 2013aOesterdiekhoff , 2015bOesterdiekhoff , 2009Oesterdiekhoff , 2011.…”

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Psychological Stage Development and the History of Philosophy

2016

European Journal of Philosophical Research

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Historians of philosophy often raised the question whether or not there has been a general trend or a general direction identifiable in the history of philosophy. D´Holbach, Hegel, Comte, Brunschvicq, Cassirer, and Piaget belong to the list of those scholars who tried to describe the history of philosophy as a history of stages of mind. They all described the history of philosophy as a sequence of stages going from more concrete, simple, and childish patterns to more elaborated, systematic, abstract, and mature patterns. Piaget himself made many comparisons between ancient philosophy on the one side and childish stages on the other side, while he identified higher psychological stages only in the sciences and philosophy after 1650. His idea with this regard, supported by T. Kuhn and A. Koyré, has found a couple of followers who likewise contributed to the psychogenetic theory of the philosophy´s history. The new structure-genetic theory programme, however, emphasizes that not only the philosophical theories but also the psychological structures of the philosophers themselves went through the stages developmental psychology has found out. This article here distinguishes six stages identifiable within the history of philosophy: Mythos, archaic philosophy, Ionian philosophy, classical Greek philosophy, early modern philosophy, and modern philosophy, all of them describable in terms of developmental psychology.

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Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity

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2009

The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior

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