Books by Paul Bloom and Complete Book Reviews
Paul Bloom, Author . Basic $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-465-00783-7
Erudite cognitive scientist Bloom (How Children Learn the Meaning of Words
) deftly reconciles notions of human mental life—in art, religious belief and morality—with the latest in child development research. Bloom's central thesis
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Paul Bloom, Norton, $26.95 (280p) ISBN 9780393066326
Bloom (Descartes’ Baby), a psychology professor at Yale, explores pleasure from evolutionary and social perspectives, distancing himself from the subject’s common association with the senses. By examining studies and anecdotes of pleasure-inducing...
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Paul Bloom. Crown, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-88684-2
With wit and passion, Yale psychology professor Bloom (How Pleasure Works) explores the nature of morality, drawing on current research in psychology, evolutionary biology, and philosophy while discussing which factors appear to be innate and which...
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Paul Bloom. Ecco, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-233933-1
Psychologist Bloom (Just Babies) makes the provocative argument that empathy is not the vital catalyst for human morality it is thought to be, and that the impulse toward empathetic feelings should, in fact, be suppressed. The argument centers on...
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