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The Philosophical Baby What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life

Alison Gopnik

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 an...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein highlighted the title in several episodes, noting that it blew his mind by revealing through experiments how children often outsmart adults in learning and reasoning. He recommended the book for its insightful look at children's cognitive abilities, framing it as a striking reminder of the value of a beginner's mind.

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Episode: Best Of: Why Adults Lose the ‘Beginner’s Mind’

Ezra said he had just read it and it blew his mind, noting that the book shows how children are often smarter than adults through many experiments.

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one of them in particular that I read recently is The Philosophical Baby, which blew my mind a little bit because what she does in that book is show through a lot of experiments and research that there is a way in which children are a lot smarter than adults.

Episode: Best Of: Why Adults Lose the ‘Beginner’s Mind’

Ezra said he had just read The Philosophical Baby and it blew his mind, noting that the book shows how children's seemingly silly behaviors are actually remarkable and smarter than adults.

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One of them in particular that I read recently is The Philosophical Baby, which blew my mind a little bit because what she does in that book is show through a lot of experiments and research that there is a way in which children are a lot smarter than adults.

Episode: Why Adults Lose the ‘Beginner’s Mind’

Ezra said he had recently read The Philosophical Baby and was impressed by how the book showed, through experiments, that children are often smarter than adults in their ability to learn.

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one of them in particular that I read recently is The Philosophical Baby, which blew my mind a little bit because what she does in that book is show through a lot of experiments and research that there's a way in which children are a lot smarter than adults.

Episode: Why Adults Lose the ‘Beginner’s Mind’

Ezra said the book blew his mind by showing through experiments how children are smarter than adults in many ways.

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And one of them in particular that I read recently is The Philosophical Baby, which blew my mind a little bit because what she does in that book is show through a lot of experiments ...

Freakonomics Radio

Alison Gopnik, a psychologist, mentioned her book 'The Philosophical Baby' when discussing her research on young children's minds and their capacity for learning and understanding.

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She's also written books about her research. The Philosophical Baby was one...

— Episode: Think Like a Child (Rebroadcast)

Episode: Think Like a Child (Rebroadcast)

Alison Gopnik, a psychologist, mentioned her book 'The Philosophical Baby' when discussing her research on young children's minds and their capacity for learning and understanding.

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She's also written books about her research. The Philosophical Baby was one...

Episode: 168. Think Like a Child

It was mentioned as one of Alison Gopnik's books about her research on children's minds, particularly how young children learn so quickly about the world.

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The Philosophical Baby was one.

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