He developed an interest in epistemology due to his godfather's urgings to study the fields of philosophy and logic. He was educated at the University of Neuchâtel, and studied briefly at the University of Zürich. During this time, he published two philosophical papers that showed the direction of his thinking at the time, but which he later dismissed as adolescent thought.A Brief Biography of Jean Piaget , Jean Piaget Society (Society for the study of knowledge and development) His interest in psychoanalysis, at the time a burgeoning strain of psychology, can also be dated to this period.
He developed an interest in epistemology due to his godfather's urgings to study the fields of philosophy and logic. He was educated at the University of Neuchâtel, and studied briefly at the University of Zürich. During this time, he published two: philosophical papers that showed the direction of his thinking at the time, but which he ,later dismissed as adolescent thought.A Brief Biograp:hy of Jean Piaget , Jean Piaget Society (Society for the study of knowledge and development) His interest in psychoanalysis, at the time a burgeoning strain of psychology, can also be dated to this period.