Descartes' Baby

Descartes' Baby
Author: Paul Bloom
Publisher:
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2009-04-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0786738995


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All humans see the world in two fundamentally different ways: even babies have a rich understanding of both the physical and social worlds. They expect objects to obey principles of physics, and they’re startled when things disappear or defy gravity. Yet they can also read emotions and respond with anger, sympathy, and joy.In Descartes’ Baby, Bloom draws on a wealth of scientific discoveries to show how these two ways of knowing give rise to such uniquely human traits as humor, disgust, religion, art, and morality. How our dualist perspective, developed throughout our lives, profoundly influences our thoughts, feelings, and actions is the subject of this richly rewarding book.


Descartes' Baby
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Paul Bloom
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-27 - Publisher:

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All humans see the world in two fundamentally different ways: even babies have a rich understanding of both the physical and social worlds. They expect objects
Descartes' Baby
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Paul Bloom
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-08 - Publisher: Random House

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Why is a forgery worth so much less than an original work of art?What's so funny about someone slipping on a banana peel? Why, as Freud once asked, is a man wil
Descartes' Baby
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Paul Bloom
Categories: Child psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Random House

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Why is a forgery worth so much less than an original work of art?What s so funny about someone slipping on a banana peel? Why, as Freud once asked, is a man wil
Descartes' Dream
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Philip J. Davis
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-01 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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These provocative essays take a modern look at the 17th-century thinker's dream, examining the influences of mathematics on society, particularly in light of te
Descartes' Error
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Antonio Damasio
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09-27 - Publisher: Penguin

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Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neur