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The Myth of the Moral Brain: The Limits of Moral Enhancement
(MIT Press, 2016)Throughout history, humanity has been seen as being in need of improvement, most pressingly in need of moral improvement. Today, in what has been called the beginnings of “the golden age of neuroscience,” laboratory findings ... -
Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing
(MIT Press, 2016)Language is a hallmark of the human species, the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand ... -
The Economics of Continuous-Time Finance
(MIT Press, 2017)This book introduces the economic applications of the theory of continuous-time finance, with the goal of enabling the construction of realistic models, particularly those involving incomplete markets. Indeed, most recent ... -
Information and Society
(MIT Press, 2017)A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This ... -
Monetary Theory and Policy
(MIT Press, 2017)The new edition of a comprehensive treatment of monetary economics, including the first extensive coverage of the effective lower bound on nominal interest rates. This textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the ... -
Philosophical Provocations: 55 Short Essays
(MIT Press, 2017)Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics. InPhilosophical Provocations, Colin McGinn offers a series of short, sharp essays that take on ... -
Meaning in the Brain
(MIT Press, 2018)An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen to speech, meaning seems to ... -
Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don’t Know
(MIT Press, 2017)An exploration of what we can know about what we don't know: why ignorance is more than simply a lack of knowledge. Ignorance is trending. Politicians boast, "I'm not a scientist." Angry citizens object to a proposed state ... -
The Subject’s Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body
(MIT Press, 2017)An interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-consciousness, considering representation of the body, the sense of bodily ownership, and representation of the self. The body may be the object we know the ... -
Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution
(MIT Press, 2017)The rise of genomics engendered intense struggle over the control of knowledge. In Reordering Life, Stephen Hilgartner examines the "genomics revolution" and develops a novel approach to studying the dynamics of change in ... -
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry: Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research
(MIT Press, 2017)Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis, treatment, and scientific constructs for studying mental disorders. At the ... -
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
(MIT Press, 2017)Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, ... -
How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market
(MIT Press, 2017)A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important. As China has transformed itself from a centrally ... -
Innovating: A Doer’s Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong
(MIT Press, 2017)Innovating is for doers: you don't need to wait for an earth-shattering idea, but can build one with a hunch and scale it up to impact. Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out ... -
Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity
(MIT Press, 2017)Language makes us human. It is an intrinsic part of us, although we seldom think about it. Language is also an extremely complex entity with subcomponents responsible for its phonological, syntactic, and semantic aspects. ... -
Agreement Beyond Phi
(MIT Press, 2017)Much attention in theoretical linguistics in the generative and Minimalist traditions is concerned with issues directly or indirectly related to movement. The EPP (extended projection principle), introduced by Chomsky in ... -
Five Constraints on Predicting Behavior
(MIT Press, 2017)Scientists were unable to study the relation of brain to mind until the invention of technologies that measured the brain activity accompanying psychological processes. Yet even with these new tools, conclusions are tentative ... -
Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content
(MIT Press, 2017)Evolving Enactivism argues that cognitive phenomena -- perceiving, imagining, remembering -- can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition. Building on their ... -
Efficient Cognition: The Evolution of Representational Decision Making
(MIT Press, 2018)An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment. Many organisms (including humans) make decisions by relying on ... -
MISR Advancing Artificial Intelligence Through Biological Process Applications
(IGI Global, 2008)"This book presents recent advancements in the study of certain biological processes related to information processing that are applied to artifcial intelligence. Describing the benefts of recently discovered and existing ...
