Bloom is the author of three books and editor or co-editor of three others. His scientific work has appeared in journals such as
Nature and
Science, and his popular writing has appeared in outlets such as
The New York Times,
The Guardian,
The American Scientist,
Slate and
The Atlantic (His article in
The Atlantic, "Is God an Accident?" was included in The Best American Science Writing 2006). He has had regular appearances on National Public Radio and Bloggingheads.tv.
Books
- Bloom, P. (2010). How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
- Bloom, P. (2004). Descartes' baby: How the science of child development explains what makes us human. New York: Basic Books.
- Bloom, P. (2000). How children learn the meanings of words. Cambridge, MA. MIT Press.
- Jackendoff, R.; Bloom, P.; & Wynn, K. (1999). Language, logic, and concepts: Essays in honor of John Macnamara. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Bloom, P.; Peterson, M.; Nadel, L.; & Garrett, M. (1996). Language and space. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Bloom, P. (1994). Language acquisition: Core readings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Selected popular articles
- (June 2010). Excerpt from Paul Bloom’s How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
- (May 2010). The Moral Life of Babies. The New York Times Magazine.
- (September 2009). The long and short of it. The New York Times.
- (August 2009). What's Inside a Big Baby Head? (Book Review: The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik). Slate.
- (June 2009). No Smiting. (Book Review: The Evolution of God by Robert Wright). The New York Times.
- (Nov. 2008). Does religion make you nice?. Slate.
- (Nov. 2008). First-person Plural. Atlantic Monthly.
- (Jun. 2006). Seduced by the flickering lights of the brain. Seed Magazine.
- (Dec. 2005). Is God an accident? The Atlantic Monthly.
- Links to Bloom's articles and books at Yale
Selected interviews and appearances
- Discussing his book "How Pleasure Works" on the 7th Avenue Project radio show [1]
- Discussing the moral capacities of babies on the 7th Avenue Project radio show [2]
- Interview on The Leonard Lopate Show [3]
- Open Yale Courses: Introduction to Psychology [4]
- Bloggingheads.tv: Paul Bloom & Tamar Szabo Gendler, Percontations: Beliefs, Aliefs, and Daydreams (May 31, 2009)[5]
- Bloggingheads.tv: Paul Bloom & Will Wilkinson, Free Will: Praying for Atheists (December 8, 2008)[6]
- Bloggingheads.tv: Paul Bloom & Joshua Knobe, Science Saturday: Morality and Religion (March 29, 2008)[7]