Piaget, Jean

Piaget, Jean


1896980

SWISS GENETIC EPISTEMOLOGIST, PSYCHOLOGIST

UNIVERSITE DE NEUCHATEL, B.A., 1915, Ph.D., 1918; POSTDOCTORAL STUDY AT UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, AND THE SORBONNE

The Swiss psychologist and epistemologist Jean Piaget (1896980) developed his theory of genetic epistemology throughout a nearly 60-year career as a professor and experimental researcher. He first began his scientific investigations as a young biologist immersed in the study of mollusks. Before he was 30 years of age, he was world...

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