Paul Bloom is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on morality, religion, fiction, and art. He has published more than a hundred scientific articles in journals such as Science and Nature, and his popular writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Slate, Natural History, and many other publications. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching. Paul Bloom lives in New Haven with his wife and two sons.
Books in order of publication:
Language Acquisition: Core Readings. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. – 1994
Language and Space. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. 1996.
Language, Logic, and Concepts: Essays in Honor of John Macnamara. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT . 1996.
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words. Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Press. 2000.
Descartes’ Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human. New York: Basic Books. 2004.
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 2010.
Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil. The Crown Publishing Group. 2013.
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion. Ecco. 2016.
The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning. HarperCollins. 2021
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind. HarperCollins. (2023).
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