Piaget, Jean - Historical Context
Twentieth-century psychological theories
Piaget's professional life spanned a tumultuous six decades of the mid twentieth century, during a time of rapid growth and development in the scientific disciplines. Piaget read widely in the fields of philosophy and psychology. He was influenced in his reading by the ideas of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), whose concept of categories was a precedent for later psychological theories using terms such as "constructs" and "schemes." He was also influenced by Henri Bergson (1859–1941), whose book Creative Evolution changed Piaget's thinking about the nature of life. Other philosophers and thinkers in the nineteenth century also influenced Piaget's thinking, including Charles Darwin, John Dewey, Emil Durkheim, and James Mark Baldwin, from whom Piaget borrowed the...
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