dmb says: Okay, its a dead horse (and I'm neurotic jackass) but let me kick it just one more time. I just pulled Wilber's "Integral Psychology" (2000) off my shelf. This book would be more to the point if one were specifically interested in his synthesis of the various psychologists. Here's a sample, Sir Krimelcase...
[Krimel] It is like some twisted version of the Stone's Sticky Finger's album; Wild Horse and Dead Flower morphing into Wild Flowers and Dead Horses. "You send me dead horses by electronic mail..." Quoth Wilber: "The major inadequacy of Piaget's system, most scholars now agree, is that Piaget generally maintained that cognitive development (conceived as logico-mathematical competence) is the only major line of devoplment, whereas there is now abundant evidence that numerous different developmental lines (such as ego, moral, affective, interpersonal, artistic, etc.) can unfold in a relatively independent manner." [Krimel] More self serving Wilberism. This is simply not true. I can think of all kinds of criticism leveled at Piaget but this is the first I have heard of this one. Even people who headed down these paths rarely criticize Piaget for not doing so. In a 1996 article in Psychological Review, Orlando Lourenço evaluated 10 criticisms commonly leveled at Piaget. They are: 1. Piaget's Theory Underestimates the Competence of Children 2. Piaget's Theory Establishes Age Norms Disconfirmed by the Data 3. Piaget Characterizes Development Negatively 4. Piaget's Theory Is an Extreme Competence Theory 5. Piaget's Theory Neglects the Role of Social Factors in Development 6. Piaget's Theory Predicts Developmental Synchronies Not Corroborated by the Data 7. Piaget's Theory Describes but Does Not Explain 8. Piaget's Theory Is Paradoxical Because It Assesses Thinking Through Language 9. Piaget's Theory Ignores Postadolescence Development 10. Piaget's Theory Appeals to Inappropriate Models of Logic I don't see anything like, "Piaget generally maintained that cognitive development (conceived as logico-mathematical competence) is the only major line of development," on the list. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
