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Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.

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How Do Children Learn About the World?

In graduate school, I was spending half of my time down in logic lane. And the other half, up in summer town, those are the villas where women and children sort of were parked back in the old days of Oxford. So seeing what they did, I thought then, and I continued to think to do this day, is a really important method for trying to answer that big question about how we know about the world. It turned out that even though I was a philosophy honours, I still had taken a whole bunch of psychology classes too.

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