Profiles of international archives: Les archives Jean Piaget, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Abstract

This research report provides a look behind closed doors at the Jean Piaget Archives in Geneva, Switzerland. It situates the potential visitor, contextualizes the Archives in its own history, and then describes what scholars can expect to find. New details about Piaget's views on Equal Rights and Equal Pay are also provided, including a look at how they affected the women who worked his factory (esp. Bärbel Inhelder). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).

Piaget’s neo-Gödelian turn: Between biology and logic, origins of the New Theory

“…Although Piaget and Gödel almost certainly met at the Institute for Advanced Study, when Piaget was a visiting fellow there in 1954, there is no correspondence between them held in the accessible collections at any of the archives we consulted. (This is not in itself especially meaningful, though: the majority of the collection held by the Piaget Archives is unprocessed and not available for consultation; Burman, 2013a, although things are indeed expected to open up starting in 2018; M. J. Ratcliff, personal communication, January 24, 2016.) As a result, we can only trace the changes in the larger discourse in which they both participated: preparatory spadework, in anticipation of future in-depth archival excavations (e.g., Heinzmann, Trognon, & Tremblay, 2014; Ratcliff & Burman, 2015).…”