Marc J Ratcliff
Biographic Data
| ID | 612147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc J Ratcliff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ratcliff |
| SIGNATURE | RATCLIFF M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3296-8596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A new reading of Piaget in childhood sociology
Returning to Piaget’s original writings reveals that sociologists of childhood still largely ignore the social dimension in his theory of developmental stages. Superficial reading and distorted integration may have been an effect of the disciplinary competition that surrounded the emergence of the sociology of childhood. After reviewing the sociological misunderstandings and reproduced clichés about Piaget’s conception of development, we restore …
Piaget as scientific diplomat: Exchanges between the Geneva School and Soviet psychologists during the 1950s–60s
It is known that Jean Piaget visited the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other socialist countries during the second half of the 20th century. However, these trips are usually mentioned in historical works as one more episode referring to Piaget’s international circulations or as a marginal information in the general plan of discussing divergences, complementarities, or incompatibilities between Lev Vygotsky’s psychology and Piagetian gen…
An “Arcipilago” as an Intellectual Ecosystem: In Search of Jean Piaget’s Library Through a Visual History
Divided into three parts, this article highlights the spatial and temporal boundaries of Jean Piaget’s library through a visual history of his office based on photographs taken since the late 1960s. First, we showed how Piaget’s library, as part of an intellectual ecosystem, sedimented along a spatial boundary into a horizontalized space, the “archipilago,” consisting of an archipelago of book stacks and files, and a vertical space, the wall-moun…
An Enmeshed Family System? Jean Piaget as a Designated Therapist in 1920
Alexander Luria and Jean Piaget: Partial Reconstruction of Their Cooperation
In this paper the genesis of the cooperation between Alexander Luria and Jean Piaget is reconstructed on the basis of recently found correspondence and historical data. It is shown that their initial meeting at the famous Ninth International Congress of Psychology in New Haven, 1929, formed the beginning of a cordial and productive relationship which, however, was abruptly interrupted in the late 1930's. At the background of much of their coopera…
Jean Piaget and the autonomous disciples, Alina Szeminska and Bärbel Inhelder: From the “critical method” to the appropriation of research culture
The problems addressed in this article are the transition from the Piagetian clinical method to the so-called critical method, that is, the use of objects manipulated by both the experimenter and the child, and the study of the role of Piaget's female collaborators--in particular Alina Szeminska and Bärbel Inhelder--in the establishment of the critical method. Several authors suggested that Inhelder was behind certain Piagetian experimental devic…
Origins, Trends and Perspectives of Historical-Epistemological Research on Piaget
In this paper, several points of view are adopted to present the research directions of contemporary Piagetian historiography. This article first notes the immensity of the secondary literature (20’000 texts) related to Piaget’s work, between empirical and historical-epistemological works. In order to get a more precise idea, we carried out various analyses of the scope of influence of his work: on the 2000 keywords of the thesaurus of secondary …
Trois carrières, un tremplin: Aperçus sur les parcours académiques et professionnels des psychologues Alina Szeminska, Edith Meyer et Bärbel Inhelder
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Genèse d’une découverte: La division des infusoires (1765-1766)
Quels outils un chercheur doit-il créer pour identifier un nouveau fait scientifique ? Qu’y a-t-il de commun entre la construction du fait et sa réception ? Comment les contenus d’un cahier de laboratoire interagissent-ils avec les réseaux de correspondances et les publications ? L’ouvrage de Marc Ratcliff aborde ces questions en reconstruisant la découverte de la division des infusoires — micro-organismes unicellulaires des eaux douces ou sau…
Raccourci analogique et reconstruction microhistorique: Les origines du laboratoire de psychologie expérimentale de Genève en 1892
Selon l’historiographie de la psychologie, la création du laboratoire de psychologie expérimentale de Genève en 1892 par Théodore Flournoy (1854-1920) découle de sa présence à celui de Wundt en 1879. Des sources d’archives inédites permettent de réfuter cette interprétation. Aucune perspective ne se fait jour jusqu’à la visite, en octobre 1891, de Flournoy à Hugo Münsterberg, lequel lui prodigue les connaissances, le réseau et la culture matériel…
Irritable Physicians
Abraham Trembley's Strategy of Generosity and the Scope of Celebrity in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Historians of science have long believed that Abraham Trembley's celebrity and impact were attributable chiefly to the incredible regenerative phenomena demonstrated by the polyp, which he discovered in 1744, and to the new experimental method he devised to investigate them. This essay shows that experimental method alone cannot account for Trembley's success and influence; nor are the marvels of the polyp sufficient to explain its scientific and…
Wonders, Logic, and Microscopy in the Eighteenth Century: A History of the Rotifer
The Argument Contrary to the dominant historiography of microscopy, which tends to maintain that there was no microscopical program in the Enlightenment, this paper argues that there was such a program and attempts to illustrate one aspect of its dynamic character. The experiments, observations, and interpretations on rotifers and their management by scholars of that period show that there did exist a precise axis of research that can be followed…
Le concept d'intensité dans la psychologie de Charles Bonnet/The concept of intensity in Charles Bonnet's psychology
Les concepts d'intensité et de vivacité sont étudiés dans les textes psychologiques de Charles Bonnet (1720-1793). En 1754, l'intensité mesure les mouvements physiques du fluide nerveux et la vivacité ressortit à l'âme, alors qu'en 1760, les deux échelles sont confondues. Cette évolution, qui repose sur un imaginaire de la mesure auquel l'ordre méthodologique fournit ses légitimations, construit un champ d'investigation dont le but apparent est d…
Abraham Trembley's Strategy of Generosity and the Scope of Celebrity in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Historians of science have long believed that Abraham Trembley's celebrity and impact were attributable chiefly to the incredible regenerative phenomena demonstrated by the polyp, which he discovered in 1744, and to the new experimental method he devised to investigate them. This essay shows that experimental method alone cannot account for Trembley's success and influence; nor are the marvels of the polyp sufficient to explain its scientific and…
Le concept d'intensité dans la psychologie de Charles Bonnet/The concept of intensity in Charles Bonnet's psychology
Les concepts d'intensité et de vivacité sont étudiés dans les textes psychologiques de Charles Bonnet (1720-1793). En 1754, l'intensité mesure les mouvements physiques du fluide nerveux et la vivacité ressortit à l'âme, alors qu'en 1760, les deux échelles sont confondues. Cette évolution, qui repose sur un imaginaire de la mesure auquel l'ordre méthodologique fournit ses légitimations, construit un champ d'investigation dont le but apparent est d…
Piaget as scientific diplomat: Exchanges between the Geneva School and Soviet psychologists during the 1950s–60s
It is known that Jean Piaget visited the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other socialist countries during the second half of the 20th century. However, these trips are usually mentioned in historical works as one more episode referring to Piaget’s international circulations or as a marginal information in the general plan of discussing divergences, complementarities, or incompatibilities between Lev Vygotsky’s psychology and Piagetian gen…
Jean Piaget and the autonomous disciples, Alina Szeminska and Bärbel Inhelder: From the “critical method” to the appropriation of research culture
The problems addressed in this article are the transition from the Piagetian clinical method to the so-called critical method, that is, the use of objects manipulated by both the experimenter and the child, and the study of the role of Piaget's female collaborators--in particular Alina Szeminska and Bärbel Inhelder--in the establishment of the critical method. Several authors suggested that Inhelder was behind certain Piagetian experimental devic…
Origins, Trends and Perspectives of Historical-Epistemological Research on Piaget
In this paper, several points of view are adopted to present the research directions of contemporary Piagetian historiography. This article first notes the immensity of the secondary literature (20’000 texts) related to Piaget’s work, between empirical and historical-epistemological works. In order to get a more precise idea, we carried out various analyses of the scope of influence of his work: on the 2000 keywords of the thesaurus of secondary …
Le concept d'intensité dans la psychologie de Charles Bonnet/The concept of intensity in Charles Bonnet's psychology
Les concepts d'intensité et de vivacité sont étudiés dans les textes psychologiques de Charles Bonnet (1720-1793). En 1754, l'intensité mesure les mouvements physiques du fluide nerveux et la vivacité ressortit à l'âme, alors qu'en 1760, les deux échelles sont confondues. Cette évolution, qui repose sur un imaginaire de la mesure auquel l'ordre méthodologique fournit ses légitimations, construit un champ d'investigation dont le but apparent est d…
Wonders, Logic, and Microscopy in the Eighteenth Century: A History of the Rotifer
The Argument Contrary to the dominant historiography of microscopy, which tends to maintain that there was no microscopical program in the Enlightenment, this paper argues that there was such a program and attempts to illustrate one aspect of its dynamic character. The experiments, observations, and interpretations on rotifers and their management by scholars of that period show that there did exist a precise axis of research that can be followed…
Abraham Trembley's Strategy of Generosity and the Scope of Celebrity in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Historians of science have long believed that Abraham Trembley's celebrity and impact were attributable chiefly to the incredible regenerative phenomena demonstrated by the polyp, which he discovered in 1744, and to the new experimental method he devised to investigate them. This essay shows that experimental method alone cannot account for Trembley's success and influence; nor are the marvels of the polyp sufficient to explain its scientific and…
Irritable Physicians
Genèse d’une découverte: La division des infusoires (1765-1766)
Quels outils un chercheur doit-il créer pour identifier un nouveau fait scientifique ? Qu’y a-t-il de commun entre la construction du fait et sa réception ? Comment les contenus d’un cahier de laboratoire interagissent-ils avec les réseaux de correspondances et les publications ? L’ouvrage de Marc Ratcliff aborde ces questions en reconstruisant la découverte de la division des infusoires — micro-organismes unicellulaires des eaux douces ou sau…
Raccourci analogique et reconstruction microhistorique: Les origines du laboratoire de psychologie expérimentale de Genève en 1892
Selon l’historiographie de la psychologie, la création du laboratoire de psychologie expérimentale de Genève en 1892 par Théodore Flournoy (1854-1920) découle de sa présence à celui de Wundt en 1879. Des sources d’archives inédites permettent de réfuter cette interprétation. Aucune perspective ne se fait jour jusqu’à la visite, en octobre 1891, de Flournoy à Hugo Münsterberg, lequel lui prodigue les connaissances, le réseau et la culture matériel…
Trois carrières, un tremplin: Aperçus sur les parcours académiques et professionnels des psychologues Alina Szeminska, Edith Meyer et Bärbel Inhelder
est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
Jean Piaget and the autonomous disciples, Alina Szeminska and Bärbel Inhelder: From the “critical method” to the appropriation of research culture
The problems addressed in this article are the transition from the Piagetian clinical method to the so-called critical method, that is, the use of objects manipulated by both the experimenter and the child, and the study of the role of Piaget's female collaborators--in particular Alina Szeminska and Bärbel Inhelder--in the establishment of the critical method. Several authors suggested that Inhelder was behind certain Piagetian experimental devic…
Origins, Trends and Perspectives of Historical-Epistemological Research on Piaget
In this paper, several points of view are adopted to present the research directions of contemporary Piagetian historiography. This article first notes the immensity of the secondary literature (20’000 texts) related to Piaget’s work, between empirical and historical-epistemological works. In order to get a more precise idea, we carried out various analyses of the scope of influence of his work: on the 2000 keywords of the thesaurus of secondary …
An “Arcipilago” as an Intellectual Ecosystem: In Search of Jean Piaget’s Library Through a Visual History
Divided into three parts, this article highlights the spatial and temporal boundaries of Jean Piaget’s library through a visual history of his office based on photographs taken since the late 1960s. First, we showed how Piaget’s library, as part of an intellectual ecosystem, sedimented along a spatial boundary into a horizontalized space, the “archipilago,” consisting of an archipelago of book stacks and files, and a vertical space, the wall-moun…
An Enmeshed Family System? Jean Piaget as a Designated Therapist in 1920
Alexander Luria and Jean Piaget: Partial Reconstruction of Their Cooperation
In this paper the genesis of the cooperation between Alexander Luria and Jean Piaget is reconstructed on the basis of recently found correspondence and historical data. It is shown that their initial meeting at the famous Ninth International Congress of Psychology in New Haven, 1929, formed the beginning of a cordial and productive relationship which, however, was abruptly interrupted in the late 1930's. At the background of much of their coopera…
A new reading of Piaget in childhood sociology
Returning to Piaget’s original writings reveals that sociologists of childhood still largely ignore the social dimension in his theory of developmental stages. Superficial reading and distorted integration may have been an effect of the disciplinary competition that surrounded the emergence of the sociology of childhood. After reviewing the sociological misunderstandings and reproduced clichés about Piaget’s conception of development, we restore …
Piaget as scientific diplomat: Exchanges between the Geneva School and Soviet psychologists during the 1950s–60s
It is known that Jean Piaget visited the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other socialist countries during the second half of the 20th century. However, these trips are usually mentioned in historical works as one more episode referring to Piaget’s international circulations or as a marginal information in the general plan of discussing divergences, complementarities, or incompatibilities between Lev Vygotsky’s psychology and Piagetian gen…
Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Social Representations and Identity (8 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works)