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What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, And The Meaning Of Life
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
August 2009
On Sale: August 4, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 0374231966
EAN: 9780374231965
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
How do babies think? What is it like to be a baby? How much
do our experiences as children shape our adult lives? In the
last decade there has been a revolution in our understanding
of the minds of infants and young children. We used to
believe that babies were irrational, and that their thinking
and experience were limited. Now Alison Gopnik—a leading
psychologist and philosopher, as well as a mother—explains
the cutting-edge scientific and psychological research that
has revealed that babies learn more, create more, care more,
and experience more than we could ever have imagined. And
there is good reason to believe that babies are actually
smarter, more thoughtful, and more conscious than
adults.This new science holds answers to some of the deepest
and oldest questions about what it means to be human. A new
baby’s captivated gaze at her mother’s face lays the
foundations for love and morality. A toddler’s unstoppable
explorations of his playpen hold the key to scientific
discovery. A three-year-old’s wild make-believe explains how
we can imagine the future, write novels, and invent new
technologies. Alison 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, and in turn promoting a deeper appreciation
for the role of parents.
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