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by Alison Gopnik

Gopnik, a leading psychologist and philosopher as well as a mother, explains the groundbreaking new psychological, neuroscientific, and philosophical developments in our understanding of very young children, transforming our understanding of how babies see the world.


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In the last decade there has been a revolution in our understanding of the minds of infants and young children. We used to believe that babies were irrational, and that their thinking and experience were limited. Now Alison Gopnik -- a leading psychologist and philosopher, as well as a mother -- explains the cutting-edge scientific and psychological research that has revealed that babies learn more, create more, care more, and experience more than we could ever have imagined. And there is good reason to believe that babies are actually smarter, more thoughtful, and more conscious than adults. In a lively and accessible tour of the groundbreaking new psychological, neuroscientific, and philosophical developments, Gopnik offers new insight into how babies see the world, and in turn promotes a deeper appreciation for the role of parents in shaping the lives of their children.

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  • Title The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
  • Author Alison Gopnik
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA
  • Date 2010-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780312429843 / 0312429843
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.28 x 6.18 x 0.84 in (21.03 x 15.70 x 2.13 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Human information processing in children, Cognition in children
  • Dewey Decimal Code 155.413

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  • New York Times Book Review, 07/25/2010, Page 20

About the author

Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and an affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an internationally recognized leader in the study of children's learning and development. She writes the Mind and Matter column for The Wall Street Journal and is the author of The Gardener and the Carpenter, and coauthor of The Scientist in the Crib. She has three sons and lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, Alvy Ray Smith. In 2020, Gopnik was named a Guggenheim Fellow.
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