Sociology: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ...
