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Paul Bloom - The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

Category: Education
Duration: 00:59:50
Publish Date: 2021-11-09 03:08:23
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Paul Bloom is a professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He was also the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University . Paul studies how children and adults make sense of the world, with a focus on pleasure, morality, religion, fiction, and art. 

Paul's newest book is The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.

Read more about Paul at his website: paulbloom.net.


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