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“I would eagerly leave Neuchǎtel…” a 1912 letter by Jean Piaget with an introduction and notes
Author(s) -
Vidal Fernando
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(198601)22:1<23::aid-jhbs2300220103>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - natural history , plan (archaeology) , natural philosophy , natural (archaeology) , epistemology , history , classics , psychology , philosophy , medicine , archaeology
A 1912 letter from fifteen‐year‐old Jean Piaget (1896‐1980) to the director of the Museum of Natural History of Geneva illustrates Piaget's precocious integration into a community of professional naturalists, and reveals his hitherto unknown plan to study medicine. It is not certain whether he actually intended to realize that plan. An essential biographical fact, however, is that he finally left natural history by turning to philosophy rather than to medicine.