Alison Gopnik is one of the richest Psychologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alison Gopnik's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
McGill University awarded Gopnik a B.A. in 1975, with a major in philosophy and psychology. She received her D.Phil. in 1980. Oxford University awarded her a D.Phil in experimental psychology. Before joining the faculty of UC Berkeley in 1988, she worked at the University of Toronto.
Gopnik published a 2009 paper in Hume Studies, arguing that historical records regarding the circumstances surrounding David Hume’s writing of A Treatise of Human Nature were incorrect. Gopnik claimed that Hume had had access to the Royal College at La Fleche library, a Jesuit institution founded by Henri V. While Hume was working on the Treatise from his home in nearby La Fleche, Charles Francois Dolu (a Jesuit missionary who was an expert in different religions and had previously visited Siam’s French embassy) was also living there at the time. Dolu also met Ippolito Desderi, a Jesuit missionary who had traveled to Tibet between 1716-1721. Gopnik suggests that Dolu’s exposure to Theravada Buddhism may have been the reason for the Buddhist influence in Hume’s Treatise. Gopnik refers to a number letters Hume wrote that mentioned his time at La Fleche as well as his encounter with Jesuits from the college. This Buddhist connection, through the Jesuit college’s learning, is what causes Hume to be influenced to reject the ontological reality and self. Gopnik also links this to the Indian Buddhist concept of Sunyata (“Emptiness”)
In April, 2013, Gopnik was inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is, as of 2014, a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society.
