Alison Gopnik on The Philosophical Baby

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Alison Gopnik on The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life

Research shows that even the youngest babies have learning abilities that are more powerful than those of the smartest scientists and most advanced computers. Alison Gopnik, UC professor, WSJ science columnist, and author of the critically acclaimed books "The Scientist in the Crib" and "The Philosophical Baby", will discuss some of the new discoveries in our scientific understanding of babies and young children and their implications for the way we think about young children and ourselves.

Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her BA from McGill University and her PhD. from Oxford University. She is one of the foremost scientists studying children’s learning and development and was the first to argue that children’s minds could help us understand deep philosophical questions. She is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed popular books "The Scientist in the Crib" "The Philosophical Baby; What children’s minds tell us about love, truth and the meaning of life". She writes the Mind and Matter science column for the Wall Street Journal and she has also written widely about cognitive science and psychology for Science, The New York Times, Scientific American, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, New Scientist and Slate, among others. She has frequently appeared on TV and radio including "The Charlie Rose Show" and "The Colbert Report", and her TED talk has been viewed more than a million times.

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