- Paul Bloom
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name = Paul Bloom
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birth_date = 12,24,1963
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field = Psychology
work_institutions =Yale University ,University of Arizona
alma_mater =Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,McGill University
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footnotes =Paul Bloom (December 1963–) is a Professor of Psychology at
Yale University inNew Haven, Connecticut .As an undergraduate he attended
McGill University , where he earned aBachelor of Arts in 1985.He attended graduate school at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology , where he earned aPh.D inCognitive Psychology in 1990.He was a faculty member at the
University of Arizona for 10 years, as anAssistant Professor from 1990 to 1996 and as anAssociate Professor from 1996 to 1999.He has been working as aProfessor atYale University since 1999. [As stated in Paul Bloom'sCV , available from his [http://pantheon.yale.edu/~pb85/Site/Paul_Bloom.html personal homepage] ]Bibliography
Books
* Bloom, P. (1994). "Language acquisition: Core readings". Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262521871
* Bloom, P.; Peterson, M.; Nadel, L.; & Garrett, M. (1996). "Language and space". Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262522663
* Jackendoff, R.; Bloom, P.; & Wynn, K. (1999). "Language, logic, and concepts: Essays in honor of John Macnamara". Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262100786
* Bloom, P. (2000). "How children learn the meanings of words". Cambridge, MA. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262024693
* Bloom, P. (2004). "Descartes' baby: How the science of child development explains what makes us human". New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465007837Publications
* "Is God an accident?" (2005), Atlantic Monthly [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200512/god-accident]
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References
* "Wired for Creationism?" (2005), Atlantic Monthly [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200511u/paul-bloom]
External links
* [http://www.yale.edu/psychology/FacInfo/Bloom.html Paul Bloom's research interests] at Yale University, with portrait and list of sample publications.
* [http://pantheon.yale.edu/~pb85/Site/Paul_Bloom.html Paul Bloom's personal homepage]
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