Nicholas Nixon for The New York Times
This is an interesting discussion around new research on the cognitive and moral capabilities of infants. Some of their discussion references Paul Bloom's recent article in the New York Times Magazine on The Moral Life of Babies (great article - highly recommended).
Some relevant books:
Paul Bloom: Descartes' Baby: How the science of child development explains what makes us human (2004)
Alison Gopnik: The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life (2009); The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind (1999)
Lise Eliot: Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps -- And What We Can Do About It (2009); What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (1999)
And now, on with the show.
The conversants:
Joshua Knobe
Yale University
Kiley Hamlin
University of British Columbia
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Growing evidence that babies make moral judgments (11:23)
Can babies detect intentions? (06:26)
Do we need to teach children right from wrong? (05:17)
Developmental roots of the Red Sox-Yankees conflict (07:17)
Are adults just big babies? (08:11)
The potentially disturbing meaning of tolerance (04:08)
Can babies detect intentions? (06:26)
Do we need to teach children right from wrong? (05:17)
Developmental roots of the Red Sox-Yankees conflict (07:17)
Are adults just big babies? (08:11)
The potentially disturbing meaning of tolerance (04:08)
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