The Cambridge Companion to Piaget

Ulrich Muller is Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on the development of problem solving and social understanding in infants and preschoolers. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Jean Piaget Society, and is an Associate Editor of New Ideas in Psychology. He is the editor of Developmental Perspectives on Embodiment and Consciousness (with Willis Overton and Judith Newman) and Social Life and Social Knowledge: Toward a Process Account of Development (with Jeremy Carpendale, Nancy Budwig, and Bryan Sokol). He received the Early Scientific Achievement Award from the Society of Research in Child Development in 2005. Jeremy I. M. Carpendale is Professor of Developmental Psychology at Simon Fraser University. He has published in the areas of cognitive, social cognitive, and moral development. His work focuses on the nature and development of thinking about social and moral matters and the role of language and social interaction in such development. He is an Associate Editor of New Ideas in Psychology and author of How Children Develop Social Understanding (with Charlie Lewis). He is an editor of several books, including Social Life and Social Knowledge: Toward a Process Account of Development (with Ulrich Muller, Nancy Budwig, and Bryan Sokol). Leslie Smith is a freelance researcher based in the Lake District in North West England and Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University. His main interests are in Piaget's theory, the development of children's reasoning, especially modal reasoning, and the psychology and epistemology of development with special reference to normativity. His published work includes a dozen books, most recently Norms in Human Development (as editor, with Jacques Voneche). He is currently an Associate Editor of New Ideas in Psychology and is working on a monograph, Piaget's Developmental Epistemology, to be published by Cambridge University Press.