Paul Bloom
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Paul Bloom is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology at Yale University and the author or editor of six books, including the acclaimed How Pleasure Works. He lives in New Haven with his wife and two sons.
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- Syntymäaika
- 1963-12-24
- Sukupuoli
- male
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- Canada
- Syntymäpaikka
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Asuinpaikat
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
Massachusetts, USA
Arizona, USA - Koulutus
- McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Ammatit
- Professor of Psychology
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- Wynn, Karen (wife)
- Organisaatiot
- Yale University
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- PAUL BLOOM is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology at Yale University. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on morality, religion, fiction, and art. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching. He is past-president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and co-editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, one of the major journals in the field.
Dr. Bloom has written for scientific journals such as Nature and Science, and for popular outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly. He is the author or editor of six books, including Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil.
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~pb85/Paul_B...
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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion Tekijä: Paul Bloom
I didn't disagree with the author, but I found the book pretty painful to read. It seems repetitive and unnecessarily long to me. Maybe would've been better as an essay than a full book.
I found this book to be an interesting and (from my totally non-professional opinion, so I could be wrong) seemingly exhaustive introduction to psychology. I appreciated the nuanced takes on different aspects of the study of the human mind. I have no background whatsoever in this topic, and appreciated learning more about the topic.
After all the "well these people think this, and others think that" nuance in the first several chapters of the book, I was very unhappy to read the "women are more empathetic and men are more aggressive" bullsh*t parroted later in the book, totally ignoring that women are socialized to be more empathetic, so how can we generalize and say that personality has to do with innate qualities of individuals?
I also appreciated the chapter on mental illness but didn't like that the author did not even opt to mention that there is NO biological basis for any mental illness. He gives just enough of a glimpse of "look, this is complicated, and many sides to this" but I found it interesting in the pieces of the puzzle that the author opted not to include in his book at all.… (lisätietoja)
After all the "well these people think this, and others think that" nuance in the first several chapters of the book, I was very unhappy to read the "women are more empathetic and men are more aggressive" bullsh*t parroted later in the book, totally ignoring that women are socialized to be more empathetic, so how can we generalize and say that personality has to do with innate qualities of individuals?
I also appreciated the chapter on mental illness but didn't like that the author did not even opt to mention that there is NO biological basis for any mental illness. He gives just enough of a glimpse of "look, this is complicated, and many sides to this" but I found it interesting in the pieces of the puzzle that the author opted not to include in his book at all.… (lisätietoja)
An engaging writer addresses happiness and misery and our relationships with these things. Nothing’s terribly deep or profound, but he points out a lot of things to think about when questioning other people’s deep profundities. All with a lot of humor and humanity. I’ve really enjoyed several of his books. Recommended.
Very nice discussion about the origins of morality, what parts are instinctual and what parts are learned. Bloom is a great writer and this is an interesting subject.
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