Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

By Paul Bloom

"We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the on...

Descartes' Baby: How Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human

By Paul Bloom

Language Acquisition: Core Readings

By Paul Bloom

Language and Space

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The study of the relationship between natural language and spatial cognition has the potential to yield answers to vexing questions about the nature of the mind, language, and culture. The fifteen...

Language, Logic, and Concepts

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Language Acquisition: Core Readings

By Paul Bloom

Language, Logic, and Concepts

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Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil

By Paul Bloom

"From Sigmund Freud to Jean Piaget, psychologists have long believed that we begin life as amoral animals. After all, isn't it the role of society--and especially parents--to transform babies from...

Just Babies

By Paul Bloom, Books On Tape Inc, Chamberlain, Mike, Bloom, Paul

A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life a...

How pleasure works

By Paul Bloom