Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human

By P. Bloom. 2004

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Explanation and understanding (2015, background): “In a related vein, it appears that all cultures adopt a kind of Cartesian dualism in explanations about minds and bodies, but they fill out the details in very different ways (Bloom 2004).”
Describing Inner Experience?: Proponent Meets Skeptic (2006, background): “Work by developmental psychologist Paul Bloom ( 2004 ) suggests we are born dualists: we start out thinking of people and objects as fundamentally different kinds of things.”
Disgust Sensitivity, Political Conservatism, and Voting (2012, background): “The emotion of disgust, which likely evolved to discourage us from ingesting noxious or dangerous substances (Rozin, Haidt, & McCauley, 2008), also plays an important role in many moral and social judgments (Bloom, 2004; Nussbaum, 2001). People feel disgust in response to moral violations (Chapman e”
Appraisal Theory: Old and New Questions (2013, background): “Some simple appraisals, such as the perception of novelty or a bitter taste, are perhaps almost always automatic, but even quite complex appraisals, such as incompatibility with moral norms, which are wholly absent in young children, can become instantaneous and automatic in the adult (Bloom, 2004).”
Fear of Death and Supernatural Beliefs: Developing A New Supernatural Belief Scale to Test the Relationship (2013, background): “Beliefs about post-mortem survival, for example, recur in a wide range of cultural contexts (Barrett, 2004; Bloom, 2004), as do beliefs about realms for the dead (e.”
Deconstructing the seductive allure of neuroscience explanations (2015, unknown): “Even though people may explicitly assert that the brain is involved in cognitive tasks, rejecting a strict Cartesian substance dualism, they may nevertheless fail to acknowledge the causal role of the brain in all aspects of our mental and emotional lives (Bloom, 2004, 2006).”
Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013, background): “…in contrast to pathogen and sexual disgust, there is little consensus about the measurement, function, and even existence of moral disgust (see Bloom, 2004; Nabi, 2002; Royzman & Kurzban, 2011; Royzman & Sabini, 2001; Rozin et al., 2008; Rozin, Haidt, & McCauley, 2009; Simpson, Carter,…”
The whistleblower's dilemma and the fairness–loyalty tradeoff (2013, unknown): “Despite this, adults and children are prone to behaving loyally rather than fairly or impartially (Bloom, 2004; Haidt, 2012; Hamlin et al., 2013; Shaw et al., 2012).”
When Morality Opposes Justice: Conservatives Have Moral Intuitions that Liberals may not Recognize (2007, background): “(See Bloom, 2004, for evidence that this presupposition is the natural, default assumption of our species.)”
The Meta-Problem of Consciousness (2018, background): “Where metaphysical intuitions are concerned, there is a non-negligible body of literature on “intuitive dualism” (e.g. Bloom 2004; Chudek et al 2013; Richert and Harris 2008), but the main body of this research largely focuses on intuitions about the self (e.g. could a self move between bodies or…”
Disgust as Embodied Moral Judgment (2008, background): “Critics have argued, however, that there is no such thing as social disgust and that people are speaking metaphorically when they call social actions disgusting (Bloom, 2004; Nabi, 2002).”
Conservatives are more easily disgusted than liberals (2009, background): “According to this view, consuming faecal matter, engaging in sexual intercourse with animals, or masturbating to pornography is not immoral, as long as no other people are harmed by one’s behaviour (Bloom, 2004b). However, this view of disgusting acts as morally innocuous is a fairly recent inventio”