{"id":7702,"date":"2019-05-22T15:59:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/developmental_epistemology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:43","slug":"developmental_epistemology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/developmental_epistemology\/","title":{"rendered":"Developmental epistemology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the theory of knowledge. &nbsp;Its standard questions (e.g., what is knowledge? how does knowledge differ from true belief?) are normative and non-empirical. &nbsp;Developmental epistemology &nbsp;(i.e., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Piaget<\/a>&#8216;s genetic epistemology) deals with the genesis or development of knowledge in two respects:&nbsp;1. its initial formation and 2. its valid constitution.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"accommodation\">Accommodation<\/a>, <a href=\"assimilation\">Assimilation<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_development\">Cognitive development<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_psychology\">Developmental psychology<\/a>, <a href=\"foundational_knowledge\">Foundational knowledge<\/a>, <a href=\"internalization\">Internalization<\/a>, <a href=\"neo-piagetian_theories_of_cognitive_development\">Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development<\/a>, <a href=\"ontology\">Ontology<\/a>, <a href=\"pragmatism\">Pragmatism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the theory of knowledge. &nbsp;Its standard questions (e.g., what is knowledge? how does knowledge differ from true belief?) are normative and non-empirical. &nbsp;Developmental epistemology &nbsp;(i.e., Piaget&#8216;s genetic epistemology) deals with the genesis or development of knowledge in two respects:&nbsp;1. its initial formation and 2. its valid &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/developmental_epistemology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Developmental epistemology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}