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Category Theory for the Sciences
(MIT Press, 2014)Category theory was invented in the 1940s to unify and synthesize different areas in mathematics, and it has proven remarkably successful in enabling powerful communication between disparate fields and subfields within ... -
Investigating the psychological world : scientific method in the behavioral sciences
(MIT Press, 2014)in relation to behavioral research methods. It follows John Dewey’s (1910) lead and suggests that we adopt an inquiry-oriented conception of education that accords an important place to scientific method. The narrow nature ... -
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
(MIT Press, 2017)This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the "embodied cognition" approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices ... -
Analyzing Neural Time Series Data: Theory and Practice
(MIT Press, 2014)This book offers a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of analyzing electrical brain signals. It explains the conceptual, mathematical, and implementational (via Matlab programming) aspects of time-, time-frequency- ... -
Financial Modeling
(MIT Press, 2014)Financial Modeling is now the standard text for explaining the implementation of financial models in Excel. This long-awaited fourth edition maintains the "cookbook" features and Excel dependence that have made the previous ... -
Fundamental Models in Financial Theory
(MIT Press, 2014)This book provides an innovative, integrated, and methodical approach to understanding complex financial models, integrating topics usually presented separately into a comprehensive whole. The book brings together financial ... -
Logic in Games
(MIT Press, 2014)This book draws on ideas from philosophical logic, computational logic, multi-agent systems, and game theory to offer a comprehensive account of logic and games viewed in two complementary ways. It examines the logic of ... -
Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited
(MIT Press, 2014)Representation in Scientific Practice, published by the MIT Press in 1990, helped coalesce a long-standing interest in scientific visualization among historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science and remains a ... -
Why Are We Waiting?: The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change
(MIT Press, 2015)An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the benefits of action. The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The ... -
Technology Choices: Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology
(MIT Press, 2015)Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example, finds advanced information and communication technologies ... -
Modern Macroeconomics
(MIT Press, 2015)A textbook that approaches modern macroeconomics through its microeconomic foundations, with an emphasis on financial market connections and policy applications. The modern study and analysis of macroeconomics begins by ... -
Thinking Like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy After the End of Nature
(MIT Press, 2015)Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached "the end of nature," as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect? ... -
What’s Left of Human Nature?: A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept
(MIT Press, 2018)A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy. What does it mean to ... -
Investment Intelligence from Insider Trading
(MIT Press, 2015)The term insider trading refers to the stock transactions of the officers, directors, and large shareholders of a firm. Many investors believe that corporate insiders, informed about their firms' prospects, buy and sell ... -
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 ...
