Putting Together Philosophy And Children Would Have

The Youngest Children Have A Great Capacity For Empathy And Altruism. There's A Recent Study That Shows Even 14-month-olds Will Climb Across A Bunch Of Cushions And Go Across A Room To Give You A Pen If You Drop One.

If Parents Are The Fixed Stars In The Childs Universe, The Vaguely Understood, Distant But Constant Celestial Spheres, Siblings Are The Dazzling, Sometimes Scorching Comets Whizzing Nearby.

Childhood Is A Fundamental Part Of All Human Lives, Parents Or Not, Since That's How We All Start Out. And Yet Babies And Young Children Are So Mysterious And Puzzling And Even Paradoxical.

Philosophers And Psychologists Have Long Puzzled Over The Question Of How We Know As Much As We Do Despite Our Limited Experiences. One Way Is To See How Children Learn. Another Example Is Consciousness. The Concept Is Usually Explored By Armchair Academics. Looking At Kids Expands Our Conceptions Of Consciousness.

The Brain Is Highly Structured, But It Is Also Extremely Flexible. It's Not A Blank Slate, But It Isn't Written In Stone, Either.