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Subjunctive Conditionals: A Linguistic Analysis
(MIT Press, 2013)In this book, Michela Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions ... -
Visual Psychophysics: From Laboratory to Theory
(MIT Press, 2013)Vision is one of the most active areas in biomedical research, and visual psychophysical techniques are a foundational methodology for this research enterprise. Visual psychophysics, which studies the relationship between ... -
Mathematical Modeling in Systems Biology: An Introduction
(MIT Press, 2013)Systems techniques are integral to current research in molecular cell biology, and system-level investigations are often accompanied by mathematical models. These models serve as working hypotheses: they help us to understand ... -
Harvesting the biosphere : what we have taken from nature
(MIT Press, 2013)The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, ... -
Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure
(MIT Press, 2013)Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive science. Learnability and Cognition, first published ... -
How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
(MIT Press, 2013)An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed, rather than brain-bound, "all in the head." This shift in perspective raises important questions ... -
Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond
(MIT Press, 2013)In the 1930s a series of seminal works published by Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel, Alonzo Church, and others established the theoretical basis for computability. This work, advancing precise characterizations of effective, ... -
A metaphysics of psychopathology
(MIT Press, 2014)In psychiatry, few question the legitimacy of asking whether a given psychiatric disorder is real, similarly, in psychology, scholars debate the reality of such theoretical entities as general intelligence, superegos, and ... -
Leading Open Innovation
(MIT Press, 2013)In today's competitive globalized market, firms are increasingly reaching beyond conventional internal methods of research and development to use ideas developed through processes of open innovation (OI). Organizations ... -
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
(MIT Press, 2014)We now know that there is much more to classical mechanics than previously suspected. Derivations of the equations of motion, the focus of traditional presentations of mechanics, are just the beginning. This innovative ... -
Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age
(MIT Press, 2013)Internet use has become ubiquitous in the past two decades, but governments, legislators, and their regulatory agencies have struggled to keep up with the rapidly changing Internet technologies and uses. In this groundbreaking ... -
Empirical Model Discovery and Theory Evaluation: Automatic Selection Methods in Econometrics
(MIT Press, 2014)A synthesis of the authors' groundbreaking econometric research on automatic model selection, which uses powerful computational algorithms and theory evaluation. Economic models of empirical phenomena are developed for a ... -
The Empire of Value: A New Foundation for Economics
(MIT Press, 2014)With the advent of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the economics profession itself entered into a crisis of legitimacy from which it has yet to emerge. Despite the obviousness of their failures, however, economists continue ... -
Labor Economics
(MIT Press, 2014)The new edition of a widely used, comprehensive graduate-level text and professional reference covering all aspects of labor economics, with substantial new material. This landmark graduate-level text combines depth and ... -
The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, Book 3: Reason in Religion
(MIT Press, 2014)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 ... -
The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity
(MIT Press, 2014)In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision. Precision can overwhelm us with information, whereas insight connects seemingly disparate pieces of information ... -
Investigating the Psychological World Scientific Method in the Behavioral Sciences
(MIT Press, 2014)This book considers scientific method in the behavioral sciences, with particular reference to psychology. Psychologists learn about research methods and use them to conduct their research, but their training teaches them ... -
Evolution in Four Dimensions, Revised Edition
(MIT Press, 2014)This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published in 2005, offering corrections, an updated bibliography, ... -
Lives of the laureates : twenty-three Nobel economists
(MIT Press, 2014)Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic thought as told through autobiographical essays by twenty-three Nobel Prize laureates in Economics. The essays not only provide unique insights ... -
Post-crisis Fiscal Policy
(MIT Press, 2014)Fiscal policy makers have faced an extraordinarily challenging environment over the last few years. At the outset of the global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the first time advocated a fiscal ...
