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| Introduction | |
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| How Children Change the World | |
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| How Childhood Changes the World | |
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| A Road Map | |
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| Possible Worlds: Why Do Children Pretend? | |
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| The Power of Counterfactuals | |
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| Counterfactuals in Children: Planning the Future | |
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| Reconstructing the Past | |
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| Imagining the Possible | |
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| Imagination and Causation | |
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| Children and Causation | |
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| Causes and Possibilities | |
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| Maps and Blueprints | |
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| Causal Maps | |
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| Detecting Blickets | |
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| Imaginary companions: How Does Fiction Tell the Truth? | |
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| Dunzer and Charlie Ravioli | |
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| Normal Weirdness | |
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| Making a Map of the Mind | |
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| Imaginary Companions and Psychological Knowledge | |
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| Autism, Causation, and Imagination | |
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| Maps and Fictions | |
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| Why Minds and Things are Different | |
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| Soul Engineers | |
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| The Work of Play | |
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| Escaping Plato's Cave: How Children, Scientists, and Computers Discover the Truth | |
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| Observation: Baby Statistics | |
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| Experimentation: Making Things Happen | |
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| Demonstration: Watching Mom's Experiments | |
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| Understanding Minds | |
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| What Is It Like to Be a Baby? Consciousness and Attention | |
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| External Attention | |
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| Internal Attention | |
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| Baby Attention | |
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| Young Children and Attention | |
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| What is it Like to be a Baby? | |
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| Travel and Meditation | |
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| Who Am I? Memory, Self, and the Babbling Stream | |
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| Consciousness and Memory | |
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| Children and Memory | |
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| Knowing how you know | |
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| Constructing Myself | |
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| Children and the Future | |
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| The Stream of Consciousness | |
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| Living in the Moment | |
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| Internal Consciousness, Free Association, Hypnagogic thought, and Insight Meditation | |
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| Why does Consciousness Change? | |
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| A Map of Myself: Constructing Consciousness | |
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| Heraclitus' River and the Romanian Orphans: How Does Our Early Life Shape Our Later Life? | |
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| Life Cycles | |
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| The Paradox of Inheritance | |
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| How Babies Raise Their Parents | |
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| Learning to Love; Attachment and Identity | |
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| Theories of Love | |
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| Beyond Mothers: Social Monogamy and Allomothering | |
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| Life's Weather | |
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| The Child Inside | |
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| Love and Law: The Origins of Morality | |
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| Imitation and Empathy | |
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| Anger and Vengeance | |
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| Beyond Empathy | |
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| Psychopaths | |
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| Trolleyology | |
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| Not Like me | |
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| Widening the Circle | |
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| Following the Rules | |
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| Baby Rules | |
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| Doing it on Purpose | |
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| Rules as Causes | |
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| The Perils of Rules | |
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| The Wisdom of Huck Finn | |
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| Babies and the Meaning of Life | |
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| Awe | |
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| Magic | |
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| Love | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |