Alison Gopnik, PhD

Alison Gopnik, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and a leading cognitive scientist. She is past president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and is the author of more than seventy papers on philosophy, psychology, and children's early learning. She has also written for the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. Mother of three, she lives with her family in Berkeley, California.