Sociology: Recent submissions
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Computational Models of Referring: A Study in Cognitive Science
(MIT Press, 2016)To communicate, speakers need to make it clear what they are talking about. The act of referring, which anchors words to things, is a fundamental aspect of language. In this book, Kees van Deemter shows that computational ... -
Open MIND : philosophy and the mind sciences in the 21st century
(MIT Press, 2016)This is an edited collection of 39 original papers and as many commentaries and replies. The target papers and replies were written by senior members of the MIND Group, while all commentaries were written by junior group ... -
The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking
(MIT Press, 2016)Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people do foolish things all the time. Misjudgments and bad decisions by highly educated bankers and money managers, for example, brought us the financial crisis ... -
The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World
(MIT Press, 2016)Most of us will freely admit that we are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask -- read work email, reply to a text, check Facebook, watch a video clip. Talk on the phone, send a text, ... -
Impossible Languages
(MIT Press, 2016)Can there be such a thing as an impossible human language? A biologist could describe an impossible animal as one that goes against the physical laws of nature (entropy, for example, or gravity). Are there any such laws ... -
Macroeconomics in Times of Liquidity Crises: Searching for Economic Essentials
(MIT Press, 2016)Since the subprime mortgage crisis that began in 2007, advanced economies have felt a nagging sense of insecurity. In parallel, the profession has witnessed phenomena that are alien to mainstream macroeconomic models. ... -
Multicellularity: Origins and Evolution
(MIT Press, 2016)The evolution of multicellularity raises questions regarding genomic and developmental commonalities and discordances, selective advantages and disadvantages, physical determinants of development, and the origins of ... -
Connectedness and Contagion: Protecting the Financial System from Panics
(MIT Press, 2016)The Dodd–Frank Act of 2010 was intended to reform financial policies in order to prevent another massive crisis such as the financial meltdown of 2008. Dodd–Frank is largely premised on the diagnosis that connectedness was ... -
Mental Time Travel: Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past
(MIT Press, 2016)In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of memory to develop an innovative philosophical account of the nature of remembering and memory knowledge. Current philosophical approaches to memory ... -
The Ancient Origins of Consciousness: How the Brain Created Experience
(MIT Press, 2016)How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which animals can be said to be sentient? In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt draw on ... -
Rethinking Human Evolution
(MIT Press, 2018)Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology. The study of human evolution often seems to rely on scenarios and received wisdom ... -
Winning the Reputation Game: Creating Stakeholder Value and Competitive Advantage
(MIT Press, 2016)What does a company have to do to be admired and respected? Why does Apple have a better reputation than, say, Samsung? In Winning the Reputation Game, Grahame Dowling explains. Companies' reputations do not derive from ... -
Crowdsourced Health: How What You Do on the Internet Will Improve Medicine
(MIT Press, 2016)Most of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients? Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew ... -
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 ...
