The Philosophical Baby
what children's minds tell us about truth, love, and the meaning of life
by Alison Gopnik · first published 2009
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A revelatory examination of how babies and young children think draws on new scientific understandings to identify links between key behaviors and subsequent abilities, explaining how the latest findings offer profound insight into the nature of being human.
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Alison gopnik’s ‘the philosophical baby’ is excellent
on “Book Review: Raise a Genius (2017)” ↗> How would we determine whether an animal understands something? Alison Gopnik's The Philosophical Baby is full of remarkable experiments to determine what babies understand. (At least, I assume it is! I haven't read it - just saw her give a talk about the book and her research when the book came out, and…
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