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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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  • 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
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • 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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