Author
Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik writes psychology and parenting. We've read and reviewed 2 of Alison Gopnik's books, including The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children and The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life, each scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
by Alison Gopnik
The Philosophical Baby is Alison Gopnik's evidence-rich case that babies and young children are not defective adults but the most powerful learners on the planet. Part developmental psychology, part philosophy of mind, it explains what infant research reveals about truth, love, consciousness, and why childhood exists at all.
The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
by Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik's The Gardener and the Carpenter is the rare parenting book that questions the whole project of 'parenting' as a verb. Drawing on developmental science, she argues our job is to make a rich environment, not to engineer a particular product.