Paul Bloom
Psychologist at the University of Toronto and Yale; author of Against Empathy and Psych.
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- Paul Bloom is a Canadian-American psychologist who studies how children and adults make sense of the world, with a focus on pleasure, morality, religion, fiction and art.
- He taught at the University of Arizona from 1990 to 1999 and at Yale from 1999, where he is now Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus, and joined the University of Toronto in 2021.
- He is co-editor of the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Key facts
- Born
- December 24, 1963, Montreal1
- Education
- BA psychology, McGill University; PhD cognitive psychology, MIT1
- Positions
- Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto; Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus, Yale (as of October 2026)2
- Books
- Descartes' Baby; How Pleasure Works; Just Babies; Against Empathy; The Sweet Spot; Psych: The Story of the Human Mind1
- Awards
- Stanton Prize, Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2002)1
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