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Author Gopnik, Alison.

Title The philosophical baby : what children's minds tell us about truth, love, and the meaning of life / Alison Gopnik.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1354528~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  155.413 GOP    AVAILABLE
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Description x, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-272) and index.
Contents Possible worlds : why do children pretend? -- Imaginary companions : how does fiction tell the truth? -- Escaping Plato's cave : how children, scientists, and computers discover the truth -- What is it like to be a baby? : consciousness and attention -- Who am I? : memory, self, and the babbling stream -- Heraclitus' River and the Romanian orphans : how does our early life shape our later life? -- Learning to love : attachment and identity -- Love and law : the origins of morality -- Babies and the meaning of life.
Subject Cognition in children.
Human information processing in children.
Perception in children.
ISBN 9780374231965 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0374231966 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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