TY - BOOK ID - 137360290 TI - The child as a Cartesian thinker PY - 2015 SN - 1315693011 1317435060 1317435052 9781315693019 9781317435068 9781317435044 1317435044 9781317435051 1138911062 9781138911062 9781138911093 1138911097 9781138911062 PB - London DB - UniCat KW - Reasoning in children. KW - Reality in children. KW - Descartes, René, KW - Influence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137360290 AB - Originally published in 1996, this book presents and analyses children's reasonings about fundamental metaphysical problems. The first part describes dialogues with children that were constructed on the basis of Descartes' Mediations on First Philosophy and which look at children's ideas about the relationships between true and false knowledge, mental images and physical objects, mind and body, personal existence and the external world, dreams and reality, and the existence of the Supreme Being, among others. The second part of the book draws on concepts that children of various ages have abou ER -