|birth_place      = [[Neuchâtel]], [[Swisserland]]
|death_date       = {{Death date and age|1980|9|16|1896|8|9|df=y}}
|death_place      = [[Geneva]], [[Swisserland]]
|fields           = [[Developmental psychology]], [[epistemology]]
|known_for        = [[Constructivism (learnin theory)|Constructivism]], [[genetic epistemology]], [[theory o cognitive development]], [[object permanence]], [[egocentrism]]
|alma_mater       = [[Varsity o Neuchâtel]]
|influences       = [[Immanuel Kant]], [[Henri Bergson]],<ref>Susan Pass, ''Parallel Paths to Constructivism: Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky'', Information Age Publishing, 2004, p. 74.</ref> [[Pierre Janet]], [[James Mark Baldwin]]<ref>Piaget, J. (1982). Reflections on Baldwin [interview with J. J. Vonèche]. In J. M. Broughton & D. J. Freeman-Moir (Eds.), ''The cognitive developmental psychology of James Mark Baldwin'' (pp. 80-86). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.</ref>
|influenced       = [[Bärbel Inhelder]],<ref>Inhelder, B. (1989). Bärbel Inhelder [Autobiography] (H. Sinclair & M. Sinclair, Trans.). In G. Lindzey (Ed.), ''A History of Psychology in Autobiography'' (Vol. VIII, pp. 208-243). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Tryphon, A., & Vonèche, J. J. (Eds.). (2001). ''Working with Piaget: Essays in honour of Bärbel Inhelder.'' Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.</ref> [[Jerome Bruner]],<ref>Bruner, J. S. (1983). ''In search of mind: Essays in autobiography.'' New York: Harper & Row.</ref> [[Kenneth Kaye]],{{Citation needed|date=April 2014}} [[Lawrence Kohlberg]],<ref>Kohlberg, L. (1982). Moral development. In J. M. Broughton & D. J. Freeman-Moir (Eds.), The cognitive developmental psychology of James Mark Baldwin: Current theory and research in genetic epistemology (pp. 277-325). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.</ref> [[Robert Kegan]],<ref>Kegan, Robert (1994). In Over Our Heads (p. 29). Cambridge, MA: Harvasrd University Press.</ref> [[Howard Gardner]],<ref>Gardner, H. (2008). Wrestling with Jean Piaget, my paragon. What have you changed your mind about? http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_1.html#gardner {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019164117/https://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_1.html#gardner |date=2016-10-19 }}</ref> [[Thomas Kuhn]],<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Burman | first1 = J. T. | year = 2007 | title = Piaget no "remedy" for Kuhn, but the two should be read together: Comment on Tsou's "Piaget vs. Kuhn on scientific progress" | url = | journal = Theory & Psychology | volume = 17 | issue = 5| pages = 721–732 | doi = 10.1177/0959354307079306 }}</ref> [[Seymour Papert]],<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Papert | first1 = S | date = March 29, 1999 | title = Child Psychologist: Jean Piaget | url =https://archive.org/details/sim_time_1999-03-29_153_12/page/104| journal = Time | volume = 153 | issue = | pages = 104–107 }}</ref> [[Umberto Eco]],{{Citation needed|date=June 2010}} [[Lev Vygotsky]]<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Piaget | first1 = J | year = 1979 | title = Comments on Vygotsky's critical remarks | url = | journal = Archives de Psychologie | volume = 47 | issue = 183| pages = 237–249 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Piaget | first1 = J | year = 2000 | title = Commentary on Vygotsky's criticisms of ''Language and Thought of the Child and Judgement'' and ''Reasoning in the Child'' (L. Smith, Trans.) | url = | journal = New Ideas in Psychology | volume = 18 | issue = 2-3| pages = 241–259 | doi=10.1016/s0732-118x(00)00012-x}}  (Original work published 1962.)</ref>
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