Free Will: Children and the Scientific Worldview | Joshua Knobe & Alison Gopnik

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Channel: Nonzero · 2018 · News & Politics

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01:03 How kids know the monster under the bed isn't real
07:27 Experiments probe causal thinking in children
16:32 Do scientists have more in common with kids than other adults?
23:02 Are morality and causality intertwined for ordinary people?
37:25 4-year-olds' value-laden perspective on others' intentions
45:26 Are Pinker and Chomsky dead-wrong about child development?

Joshua Knobe (Yale University) and Alison Gopnik (University of California-Berkeley)

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Recorded on December 24, 2008

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