|
Cover Image
|
|
|
Call Number
|
Circulating Collection, 3rd Floor / BF723.C5 G675 2009
|
|
Library Holdings
|
Is it here?
|
|
Author
|
 Gopnik, Alison.
|
|
Title
|
The philosophical baby : what children’s minds tell us about truth, love, and the meaning of life / Alison Gopnik.
|
|
Edition
|
1st ed.
|
|
Publisher
|
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
|
|
Description
|
x, 288 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
|
|
Series
|
SUNY Oswego
|
|
|
|
|
Bibliography
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-272) and index.
|
|
Table of 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 Headings
|
Cognition in children.Human information processing in children.Perception in children.
|
|
ISBN
|
9780374231965 (hardcover : alk. paper) : 0374231966 (hardcover : alk. paper)
|
|
Sys. no.
|
000396515
|
|
Library Holdings
|
Is it here?
|
