Principal Publications

Bibliography

  • Piaget published more than 50 books and 500 papers as well as 37 volumes in the series “Etudes d’Epistémologie Génétique” (Studies in Genetic Epistemology). Almost all of these publications are listed in:
  • Jean Piaget Archives Foundation (1989). The Jean Piaget Bibliography. Geneva: Jean Piaget Archives Foundation. ISBN:288288012X
  • There is a breakdown of these publications by decade during 1919-1980 in the Preface to:
  • Smith, L. (1993) Necessary knowledge. Hove: Erlbaum Associates Ltd.

Autobiography

  • Bringuier, J.C. (1980). Conversations with Jean Piaget. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Evans, R. (1973). Jean Piaget, the man and his ideas. New York: Dutton.
  • Piaget, J. (1952). Autobiography. In E. Boring (ed) History of psychology in autobiography. Vol. 4. Worcester, MA: Clark University Press.
  • Piaget, J. (1976). Autobiographie. Revuee Européenne des Sciences Sociales, 14 (38-39), 1-43.

Main works include

  • 1918, Recherche. Lausanne: La Concorde.
  • 1924, Judgment and reasoning in the child, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1928.
  • 1936, Origins of intelligence in the child, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953.
  • 1957, Construction of reality in the child, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954.
  • 1941, Child’s conception of number (with Alina Szeminska), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952.
  • 1945, Play, dreams and imitation in childhood, London: Heinemann, 1951.
  • 1949, Traité de logique. Paris: Colin.
  • 1950, Introduction à l’épistémologie génétique 3 Vols. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
  • 1954, Intelligence and affectivity, Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 1981.
  • 1955, Growth of logical thinking (with Bärbel Inhelder), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958.
  • 1962, Commentary on Vygotsky’s criticisms. New Ideas in Psychology, 13, 325-40, 1995
  • 1967, Logique et connaissance scientifique. Paris: Gallimard.
  • 1967, Biology and knowledge, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971.
  • 1970, Piaget’s theory. In P. Mussen (ed) Handbook of child psychology, Vol.1. New York: Wiley, 1983.
  • 1970, Main trends in psychology, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973.
  • 1975, Equilibration of cognitive structures, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
  • 1977, Sociological studies, London: Routledge, 1995
  • 1977, Studies in reflecting abstraction. Hove: Psychology Press, 2000
  • 1977, Essay on necessity. Human Development, 29, 301-14, 1986.
  • 1981, Possibility and necessity, 2 Vols, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
  • 1983, Psychogenesis and the history of science (with Rolando Garcia), New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
  • 1987, Towards a logic of meanings (with Rolando Garcia), Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates, 1991.
  • 1990, Morphisms and categories (with Gil Henriques, Edgar Ascher), Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates, 1992.

Further Reading includes

  • Beilin, H. (1992). Piaget’s enduring contribution to developmental psychology. Developmental Psychology, 28, 191-204.
  • Chapman, M. (1988). Constructive evolution: origins and development of Piaget’s thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Kitchener, R. (1986). Piaget’s theory of knowledge. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Smith, L. (1992). Jean Piaget: critical assessments. 4 Vols. London: Routledge.
  • Smith, L. (1996). Critical readings on Piaget. London: Routledge.
  • Vidal, F. (1994). Piaget before Piaget. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Vonèche, J.J. (1985). Genetic epistemology: Piaget’s theory. International Encyclopedia of Education, Vol. 4. Oxford: Pergamon.

Institutional Addresses relevant to Jean Piaget’s work

  • Jean Piaget Archives (Switzerland): www.unige.ch/piaget/
  • Jean Piaget Society: Society for the Study of Knowledge and Development (USA): www.piaget.org

Acknowledgement

This information is adapted from a biographical review of Piaget’s work: Smith, L. (1997). Jean Piaget. In N. Sheehy, A. Chapman. W.Conroy (eds). Biographical dictionary of psychology. London: Routledge.

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