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

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
155.413 GOPN	Adult Non Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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ISBN	9780374231965 (hbk.)
ISBN	0374231966 (hbk.)
Name	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.
Published	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Description	x, 288 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-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.
Subjects	Cognition in children
	Human information processing in children
	Perception in children
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Cognition in children . Human information processing in children . Perception in children . See Also: Child psychology . Perception in children . Authors: Gopnik, Alison .