Acta Structuralica

international journal for structuralist research

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Evaluative claims about foundational development

Wouter van Haaften

pp. 75-91

Abstract

In this chapter we concentrate on the question of how to defend claims that a certain stage is better than its predecessor(s). Our question is not, therefore, how developmental processes come about, which is what most developmental theories focus on. It concerns instead the evaluation of the development, a question that many developmental theories do not even mention. This may be so for two reasons. One is that they just do not want to make such an evaluative claim. The other, which is more often the case, is that they consider the correlation of development with improvement to be entirely obvious and not in need of separate argumentation.

Publication details

Published in:

van Haaften Wouter, Korthals Michiel, Wren Thomas (1997) Philosophy of development: reconstructing the foundations of human development and education. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 75-91

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8782-2_6

Full citation:

van Haaften Wouter (1997) „Evaluative claims about foundational development“, In: W. Van Haaften, M. Korthals & T. Wren (eds.), Philosophy of development, Dordrecht, Springer, 75–91.