"The Philosophical Baby" - Dr Alison Gopnik Interviewed on Freedomain Radio

Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her BA from McGill University and her PhD. from Oxford University. Her honors include a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada University Research Fellowship, an Osher Visiting Scientist Fellowship at the Exploratorium, a Center for the Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship, and a Moore Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. She is an internationally recognized leader in the study of childrens learning and development and was the first to argue that childrens minds could help us understand deep philosophical questions. She was one of the founders of the study of "theory of mind", illuminating how children come to understand the minds of others, and she formulated the "theory theory", the idea that children learn in the same way that scientists do.

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[joshv89]

Jesus I jumped out of my chair @ 5:00 its like she got possessed or something.....

[DecassyJake]

Ive noticed that when Stef interviews obviously learned and people who have really got something to say, they appear to experience a quite delicious pleasure. I guess its because they are so surprised to meet such an engaged mind as theirs. I call it a Stefgasm!

[happinesson]

very informative interview!

[40muzik]

more ands, ifs or buts.

[sniped101]

@jrspolitical she probably needs some dick.

[Girls4RonPaul]

this frustrates me so, cause icd to tell this for years. as a dev pschologist and preschool teacher. no one would listen.

[petewalker274]

Like "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" in the Byrds song My Back Pages.

[loneanalyst]

"mmhm, yeah I think that's right" (40:46) - she was actually thinking "mmhm, riiight.. um, that's garbage".. otherwise not a bad interview.

[lnd3005]

Baby-talk is bad for babies, eh? Any papers to back that up?

Maybe you wrote one, back when you were in the whom?

[redkeithh]

This unoffensive comment from Signzit deserved 12! thumbs down? Sheesh.

Anyway, this is a brilliant interview. The kind that makes stefbot one of the great YouTube channels.