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Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity
(MIT Press, 2015)This book is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that we take for granted: the importance of the hand in everything we do. Drawing ... -
Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities
(MIT Press, 2015)How cities can build on the "sharing economy" and smart technology to deliver a "sharing paradigm" that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability. The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space ... -
A Two-Tiered Theory of Control
(MIT Press, 2015)This book revives and reinterprets a persistent intuition running through much of the classical work: that the unitary appearance of Obligatory Control into complements conceals an underlying duality of structure and ... -
Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention
(MIT Press, 2015)In this book, Carlos Montemayor and Harry Haladjian consider the relationship between consciousness and attention. The cognitive mechanism of attention has often been compared to consciousness, because attention and ... -
Inborn Knowledge: The Mystery Within
(MIT Press, 2015)In this book, Colin McGinn presents a concise, clear, and compelling argument that the origins of knowledge are innate — that nativism, not empiricism, is correct in its theory of how concepts are acquired. McGinn considers ... -
Analytical methods for dynamics modelers
(MIT Press, 2015)Simulation modeling is increasingly integrated into research and policy analysis of complex sociotechnical systems in a variety of domains. Model-based analysis and policy design inform a range of applications in fields ... -
The Handbook of Attention
(MIT Press, 2015)Laboratory research on human attention has often been conducted under conditions that bear little resemblance to the complexity of our everyday lives. Although this research has yielded interesting discoveries, few scholars ... -
Intelligence Emerging: Adaptivity and Search in Evolving Neural Systems
(MIT Press, 2015)Emergence -- the formation of global patterns from solely local interactions -- is a frequent and fascinating theme in the scientific literature both popular and academic. In this book, Keith Downing undertakes a systematic ... -
Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048
(MIT Press, 2015)Over the past forty years, Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) has been a composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, computer animator, roboticist, inventor, and futurologist. ... -
Pseudoscience : the conspiracy against science
(MIT Press, 2018)In a post-truth, fake news world, we are particularly susceptible to the claims of pseudoscience. When emotions and opinions are more widely disseminated than scientific findings, and self-proclaimed experts get their ... -
The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution
(MIT Press, 2015)In the 1960s, a team of Stanford musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists used computing in an entirely novel way: to produce and manipulate sound and create the sonic basis of new musical compositions. ... -
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
(MIT Press, 2015)Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they ... -
Principles of Neural Design
(MIT Press, 2015)Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled framework to organize this ... -
Design, when everybody designs: an introduction to design for social innovation
(MIT Press, 2015)In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these ... -
The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, Book 4: Reason in Art
(MIT Press, 2015)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 ... -
Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Theory and Application
(MIT Press, 2015)Many important problems involve decision making under uncertainty -- that is, choosing actions based on often imperfect observations, with unknown outcomes. Designers of automated decision support systems must take into ... -
Systemic Risk, Crises, and Macroprudential Regulation
(MIT Press, 2015)The recent financial crisis has shattered all standard approaches to banking regulation. Regulators now recognize that banking regulation cannot be simply based on individual financial institutions' risks. Instead, systemic ... -
The container principle : how a box changes the way we think
(MIT Press, 2015)We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land, provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity, inspire ... -
How to Write a Thesis
(MIT Press, 2015)By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years ... -
The Conceptual Mind: New Directions in the Study of Concepts
(MIT Press, 2015)The study of concepts has advanced dramatically in recent years, with exciting new findings and theoretical developments. Core concepts have been investigated in greater depth and new lines of inquiry have blossomed, with ...
