Abstract
Heinz Werner's (1890–1964) book Comparative Psychology of Mental Developmentis reviewed in the context of the dynamics of values and types of scientific rationality, sciences of complexity, cognitive psychology and cultural studies. The reviewer describes developmental tasks of the orthogenetic law applied to dynamical systems that are far from equilibrium between integration and differentiation, to the role of uncertainty, and to paradoxes of systems thinking, and compares epistemic, social and ethical problems raised by Werner and modern researchers.
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