The Mit Press: 939 books
Blockheads!
Essays on Ned Block's Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block.
Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...
Heredity Explored
Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850–1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Investigations of how the understanding of heredity developed in scientific, medical, agro-industrial, and political contexts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This book examines the wide range of scientific and social arenas in which the concept of inheritance gained relevance...
by Byung-Chul Han
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.
Some things never disappear—violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social...
by Warren S. McCulloch
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
Writings by a thinker—a psychiatrist, a philosopher, a cybernetician, and a poet—whose ideas about mind and brain were far ahead of his time.
Warren S. McCulloch was an original thinker, in many respects far ahead of his time. McCulloch, who was a psychiatrist, a philosopher, a teacher,...
by David J. Gunkel
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
A provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots.
We are in the midst of a robot invasion, as devices of different configurations and capabilities slowly but surely come to take up increasingly important positions...
by Mark Fedyk
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
An argument that moral psychology can benefit from closer integration with the social sciences, offering a novel ethical theory bridging the two.
In this book, Mark Fedyk offers a novel analysis of the relationship between moral psychology and allied fields in the social sciences. Fedyk shows...
by Hanno Sauer
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
An argument that moral reasoning plays a crucial role in moral judgment through episodes of rational reflection that have established patterns for automatic judgment foundation.
Rationalists about the psychology of moral judgment argue that moral cognition has a rational foundation. Recent...
Vivarium
Experimental, Quantitative, and Theoretical Biology at Vienna's Biologische Versuchsanstalt
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
The scientific achievements and forgotten legacy of a major Austrian research institute, from its founding in 1902 to its wartime destruction in 1945.
The Biologische Versuchsanstalt was founded in Vienna in 1902 with the explicit goal to foster the quantification, mathematization, and theory...
Reading the Comments
Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
What we can learn about human nature from the informative, manipulative, confusing, and amusing messages at the bottom of the web.
Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some comments are...
Cosmopolitan Commons
Sharing Resources and Risks across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
A new approach in commons theory to understand the interactions of technology, society, and nature, supported by case studies of new transnational European commons.
With the advent of modernity, the sharing of resources and infrastructures rapidly expanded beyond local communities into regional,...
Shifting Practices
Reflections on Technology, Practice, and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
How disruptions and discontinuities caused by the introduction of new technologies often reveal aspects of practice not previously observed.
What happens in an established practice or work setting when a novel artifact or tool for doing work changes the familiar work routines? Any unexpected...
by Paul M. Churchland
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
An updated edition of an authoritative text showing the relevance for philosophy of mind of theoretical and experimental results in the natural sciences.
In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind...
Post-Treaty Politics
Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
An argument that secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties—are political actors in their own right.
Secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties—-would seem simply to do the bidding of member states. And yet, Sikina Jinnah argues in Post-Treaty...
Beyond the Big Ditch
Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal.
In this innovative book, Ashley Carse traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled...