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Introduction

Cognitive Development Studies: From the History of Psychology to the Current Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2022

By
Olivier Houdé  and
Grégoire Borst
Edited by
Olivier Houdé  and
Grégoire Borst
Olivier Houdé
Affiliation:
Université de Paris V
Grégoire Borst
Affiliation:
Université de Paris V
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Summary

The history of cognitive development studies began with the Greek philosopher Plato (Houdé, 2019). In the centre of Raphael’s famous fresco, The School of Athens (1512) in the Vatican Museum in Rome, Italy, we see Plato (428–347 BC) and Aristotle (384–322 BC). Plato is pointing upwards to the ‘Heaven of Ideas’, while Aristotle, his pupil at the Academy, stretches his hand forward, symbolizing the earthly world. Indeed, for Aristotle (who does not believe in the Ideas as such), the general and the particular are transmitted here.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Development , pp. 1 - 12
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Print publication year: 2022

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