Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik (born June 16, 1955 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American psychologist.
Alison Gopnikin is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley . She is known for her research in the field of cognitive and language development , especially causal learning and the theory of mind .
After graduating from McGill University with her BA in 1975 , Gopnik earned a Ph.D. at Wolfson College of the University of Oxford . In 2013 she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
She first worked at the University of Toronto and followed a call to Berkeley in 1988.
She has three sons from her marriage to George Lewinski: the hip-hop-jazz fusion musician Alexei Gopnik-Lewinski aka Lexxx Luthor, Nicholas Gopnik-Lewinski and Andres Gopnik-Lewinski. Alison Gopnik is the oldest of five siblings, including Blake Gopnik, art critic for the Washington Post and Adam Gopnik , writer for The New Yorker .
Works
- with P. Kuhl and AN Meltzoff: Words, Thoughts and and Theories , Cambridge / London 1997
- with L. Schulz (Ed.): Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy and Computation , Oxford 2007
- with AN Meltzoff: The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind , German: "Researcher Spirit in Windeln ", Munich 2001
- The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life , German: "Kleine Philosophen", Berlin 2011
Web links
- Literature by and about Alison Gopnik in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alison Gopnik's homepage
- Video: Gopnik in conversation with Joshua Knobe on Bloggingheads.tv
- What Computers Can Learn From Babies - Press Release
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| SURNAME | Gopnik, Alison |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cognitive psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |