Norms in Human Development - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0521857945 ISBN 13: 9780521857949

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Riassunto

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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The distinction between norms and facts is long-standing in providing a challenge for psychology. 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.

L'autore:

Leslie Smith is Professor Emeritus, Lancaster University and is currently based in the Lake District as a freelance researcher.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521857945
• ISBN 13: 9780521857949
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Redattore: Smith Leslie, Vonèche Jacques