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

By: Gopnik, Alison.
Publisher: New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010Description: x, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780312429843; 0312429843.Subject(s): Child psychology | Child development | Infants | Cognition in children | Perception in childrenDDC classification: 155.413
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.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 155.413 GOP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0060100
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-272) and index

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.

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