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There wasn’t in those days a kind of technical academic audience, so it’s supposed to be written for people to understand, and I just loved it. You know, Plato is written for what we would now call a popular audience. And you know the truth is, if you talk to lots of philosophers, they’ll tell you that the thing that turned them into philosophers was reading Plato and often reading Plato when they were quite young. So, I asked my parents if I could read Socrates and they had a copy of Plato sitting on the shelf, and my father, in his typical way said, yeah, sure, here it is. This was exactly how I wanted to spend the rest of my life talking and arguing and thinking. I thought it was like the most wonderful thing in the world. And they very much led us and encouraged us to read and think about whatever it was that we wanted.Īnd there was a television version of Peter Ustinov’s Barefoot in Athens, which was a play about Socrates that I saw when I was about 10.

But my mom was and is a linguist and my father is an English professor and at the time they were getting their PhDs. My first child was born when I was 23 and I figured once, there’s maybe five years when I haven’t been really deeply engaged with children in my life.

My parents were both graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania when I was growing up, and I’m the oldest of six children, which means that I was basically with young children and taking care of young children and thinking about young children for my entire life.

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Sort of rich and chaotic and full of ideas. When I was reading one of your books, The Philosophical Baby, you talked a bit about how an early experience reading Plato actually led you to want to become a philosopher, and I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit about that experience and how it impacted you.ĪLISON GOPNIK: Yeah, well, I had a marvelous rich childhood. Thank you so much for joining me today.ĪLISON GOPNIK: Well, thank you so much for having me.ĪBBY PONTICELLO: I wanted to start actually by asking a question about your own childhood. ABBY PONTICELLO: It’s so nice to meet you, Alison.

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