The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
Invisible Mind
Flexible Social Cognition and Dehumanization
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
An interdisciplinary view of the evolution and consequences of flexible social cognition—the capacity to withhold the inference of mental states to other people.
In Invisible Mind, Lasana Harris takes a social neuroscience approach to explaining the worst of human behavior. How can a person...
Hume's Problem Solved
The Optimality of Meta-Induction
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
A new approach to Hume's problem of induction that justifies the optimality of induction at the level of meta-induction.
Hume's problem of justifying induction has been among epistemology's greatest challenges for centuries. In this book, Gerhard Schurz proposes a new approach to Hume's problem....
Voice Leading
The Science behind a Musical Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
An accessible scientific explanation for the traditional rules of voice leading, including an account of why listeners find some musical textures more pleasing than others.
Voice leading is the musical art of combining sounds over time. In this book, David Huron offers an accessible account...
Shadow Libraries
Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.
From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the institutions that shape the provision of educational materials, from the formal sector of universities and publishers to the broadly informal...
by Jessa Lingel
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
How countercultural communities have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of digital technology use.
Whether by accidental keystroke or deliberate tinkering, technology is often used in ways that are unintended and unimagined by its designers and inventors. In this...
The Mobile Workshop
The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies.
The tsetse fly is a pan-African insect that bites an infective forest animal and ingests blood filled with invisible parasites,...
Measuring Happiness
The Economics of Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
An investigation of the happiness-prosperity connection and whether economists can measure well-being.
Can money buy happiness? Is income a reliable measure for life satisfaction? In the West after World War II, happiness seemed inextricably connected to prosperity. Beginning in the 1960s,...
Virtual Menageries
Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
The close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today's proliferation of animals in digital networks.
From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces are crowded with animal bodies. In Virtual Menageries,...
Indecision Points
George W. Bush and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
How a president who prided himself on his decisiveness vacillated between policy approaches in the Middle East.
Although George W. Bush memorably declared, “I'm the decider,” as president he was remarkably indecisive when it came to U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His...
by Robert A. Wilson, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
An examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal screening, drawing on experience with those who survived eugenics.
Part science and part social movement, eugenics emerged in the late nineteenth century as a tool for human improvement. In response to...
Lessons from the Lobster
Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
How forty years of research on thirty neurons in the stomach of a lobster has yielded valuable insights for the study of the human brain.
Neuroscientist Eve Marder has spent forty years studying thirty neurons on the stomach of a lobster. Her focus on this tiny network of cells has yielded...
The First Sense
A Philosophical Study of Human Touch
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
An empirically informed philosophical account of human touch as a single, unified sensory modality that plays a central role in perception.
It is through touch that we are able to interact directly with the world; it is our primary conduit of both pleasure and pain. Touch may be our most immediate...
Experienced Wholeness
Integrating Insights from Gestalt Theory, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Predictive Processing
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
An interdisciplinary account of phenomenal unity, investigating how experiential wholes can be characterized and how such characterizations can be analyzed computationally.
How can we account for phenomenal unity? That is, how can we characterize and explain our experience of objects and groups...
by Daniel M. Wegner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
A new edition of Wegner's classic and controversial work, arguing that conscious will simply reminds of us the authorship of our actions.
Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the...