What Makes Us Human: How Minds Develop through Social Interactions (Hardcover)

Preface 1. What Makes Us Human? 2. The Baby in the Social Cradle 3. Wittgenstein’s Baby: How do Words Work? 4. A Brief History of Babies: How do Babies get the Point? 5. Thinking about the Social World: How do Children Understand Others? 6. Becoming a Moral Being: Early Development, Emotions and Neuroscience 7. Knowing Right from Wrong: Or, How does Morality Develop? 8. From Molecules to Minds: Can Genes Determine Thinking? 9. The Myth of the Desert Island Baby: Is the Mind a Machine? 10. Social Relations and Reason: What are the Implications of Self-Awareness?