With literally hundreds of people on Piaget's various teams, it's too narrow to limit the discussion to "neo-Piagetians" alone. But those who don't self-identify can be hard to see without help.
Marc Ratcliff's book, "Bonjour Monsieur Piaget," includes the names and photos of many of Piaget's collaborators and assistants. (I think nearly 300?) Piaget's legacy has to reflect their influence too. And some of them are surprising: Benoit Mandelbrot, Thomas Kuhn, Seymour Papert, Jerry Bruner....
Digging through the archival papers, when I worked in Geneva, I was always delighted to discover the names of friends we know in the present: Michael Chandler, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Robert Maier. But many, many others walked those halls. And we would be well-served, I suspect, by considering them in the aggregate -- perhaps as a network -- through which those ideas were transmitted to us, and often modified along the way, over the many decades of the Genevans' collective efforts. (I'm so glad those records have been preserved!)
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