ABSTRACT
In pursuing a parallel between inside-outside relations in evolution on the one hand and classical epistemological questions about the knower and the known on the other, Jean Piaget found prevailing evolutionary thinking inadequate. Admirably committed to overcoming certain troublesome dualities and to giving the development and activity of organisms their proper role in biology, he nevertheless remained bound in certain respects to a framework in which an external force of natural selection was constrained by internal developmental factors ( Oyama, 1992b ). In this he was like many others who have sought to locate the topic of development in evolutionary theory. Some of these theorists are discussed here, and although Piaget is not the focus of the comments that follow, I address some of the inside-outside polarities with which he struggled and that he did much to overcome.
