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Alison Gopnik

Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the Carpenter

ALISON GOPNIK is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. She is an international leader in the field of children’s learning and was one of the first cognitive scientists to show how developmental psychology could help solve ancient philosophical problems.

She is the coauthor (with Andrew Meltzoff) of Words, Thoughts, and Theories, and (with Patricia Kuhl and Andrew Meltzoff) of The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn; she is the author of The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds tell us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life; and The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children.

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Professor of psychology and philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Child psychology specialist
Author, "The Gardener and the Carpenter" (2016)

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Alison Gopnik's Biography

Alison Gopnik is an American professor psychology and an affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an internationally recognized leader in the study of children’s learning and development and was the first to argue that children’s minds could help us understand deep philosophical questions.

Her collection of writings, numbering in the hundreds, on subjects such as psychology and cognitive sciences has appeared in Scientific American, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, New Scientist, and many others. She is also the author of the books “Words, Thoughts, and Theories” (1998), “The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind ” (2000), “Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation” (2007), “The Philosophical

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Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, and a member of the Berkeley AI Research Group. She received her BA from McGill University and her PhD from Oxford University. She is a leader in cognitive science, particularly the study of children’s learning and development. She was one of the founders of the field of “theory of mind”, an originator of the “theory theory” of cognitive development, and the first to apply Bayesian probabilistic models to children’s learning. She has received the APS Lifetime Achievement, Cattell, and William James Awards, the Bradford Washburn Award for Science Communication, the SRCD Lifetime Achievement Award for Basic Science in Child Development, and the Rumelhart Prize for Theoretical Foundations of Cognitive Science. She is an elected member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Cognitive Science Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Guggenheim Fellow. She was 2022-23 President of