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Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind
(MIT Press, 2014)One of the first goals of the pioneers of AI was to create a program that could play chess. The idea, somewhat naïve, or at least, simplistic, was that if chess is considered an entirely mental activity, the emulation of ... -
Making in America: From Innovation to Market
(MIT Press, 2013)America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that are hatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale. Apple, the superstar of innovation, ... -
Mindshaping: A New Framework for Understanding Human Social Cognition
(MIT Press, 2013)In this novel account of distinctively human social cognition, Tadeusz Zawidzki argues that the key distinction between human and nonhuman social cognition consists in our complex, diverse, and flexible capacities to shape ... -
Cooperation and Its Evolution
(MIT Press, 2013)This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and utilize research tools that ... -
Word and object
(MIT Press, 2013)Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." As Patricia Smith ... -
The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, Book 2: Reason in Society
(MIT Press, 2013)Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the ... -
Storytelling and the sciences of mind
(MIT Press, 2013)With Storytelling and the Science of Mind, David Herman proposes a cross-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. This cross-fertilization goes beyond the simple importing of ideas ... -
Relive : Media Art Histories
(MIT Press, 2013)In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of "new media" and at the same time write the histories of these arts? These scholars and practitioners redefine the nature of the ... -
Neuroscience of creativity
(MIT Press, 2013)This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological fundamentals to systems neuroscience and ... -
Playing with sound : a theory of interacting with sound and music in video games
(MIT Press, 2013)In Playing with Sound, Karen Collins examines video game sound from the player's perspective. She explores the many ways that players interact with a game's sonic aspects -- which include not only music but also sound ... -
Hybrid culture : Japanese media arts in dialogue with the West
(MIT Press, 2013)This book grew out of Yvonne Spielmann's 2005--2006 and 2009 visits to Japan, where she explored the technological and aesthetic origins of Japanese new-media art--which was known for pioneering interactive and virtual ... -
Bicycle design : an illustrated history
(MIT Press, 2014)The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in the world, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. This book offers an authoritative and comprehensive ... -
Aesthetics of interaction in digital art
(MIT Press, 2013)Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In ... -
Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care : An Interdisciplinary Reader
(MIT Press, 2013)This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient autonomy and compulsory treatment, privacy and confidentiality, and the definition ... -
A Constitution for All Times
(MIT Press, 2013)Pamela S. Karlan is a unique figure in American law. A professor at Stanford Law School and former counsel for the NAACP, she has argued seven cases at the Supreme Court and worked on dozens more as a clerk for Justice ... -
Your Everyday Art World
(MIT Press, 2013)Over the past twenty years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affecting not just interaction among art professionals but the very makeup of the art object itself. The hierarchical and restrictive structure ... -
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
(MIT Press, 2013)Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what ... -
Functional Differential Geometry
(MIT Press, 2013)Physics is naturally expressed in mathematical language. Students new to the subject must simultaneously learn an idiomatic mathematical language and the content that is expressed in that language. It is as if they were ... -
Hallucination : philosophy and psychology
(MIT Press, 2013)Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of the mind, perception, and our knowledge of the world. In recent years, neuroimaging techniques and ... -
Social perception : detection and interpretation of animacy, agency, and intention
(MIT Press, 2013)Rutherford and Kuhlmeier present current research in the interdisciplinary field of social perception, including the perception of biological motion, the perception of animacy, attributions of intentionality, and the ...
