The Mit Press: 939 books
Changing Minds Changing Tools
From Learning Theory to Language Acquisition to Language Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of language change.
In this book, Vsevolod Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition—often approached as an isolated domain, subject to its own laws and mechanisms—is simply learning, subject to the same...
by W. Tecumseh Fitch, Björn Merker, Iain Morley
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music.
Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves “unmusical.”...
Becoming Human
The Ontogenesis, Metaphysics, and Expression of Human Emotionality
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
A novel, wide-ranging, and comprehensive account of how human emotionality develops, proposing a process in which “nature” and “nurture” are integrated.
In Becoming Human, Jennifer Greenwood proposes a novel theory of the development of human emotionality. In doing so, she makes important...
Evolving Enactivism
Basic Minds Meet Content
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
An extended argument that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition.
Evolving Enactivism argues that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—can be...
The Feeling Body
Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science.
In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in cognitive science and philosophy of mind...
Radicalizing Enactivism
Basic Minds without Content
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
A book that promotes the thesis that basic forms of mentality—intentionally directed cognition and perceptual experience—are best understood as embodied yet contentless.
Most of what humans do and experience is best understood in terms of dynamically unfolding interactions with the environment....
Signals and Boundaries
Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
An overarching framework for comparing and steering complex adaptive systems is developed through understanding the mechanisms that generate their intricate signal/boundary hierarchies.
Complex adaptive systems (cas), including ecosystems, governments, biological cells, and markets, are characterized...
All for Nothing
Hamlet's Negativity
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Hamlet as performed by philosophers, with supporting roles played by Kant, Nietzsche, and others.
A specter is haunting philosophy—the specter of Hamlet. Why is this? Wherefore? What should we do?
Entering from stage left: the philosopher's Hamlet. The philosopher's Hamlet is a conceptual...
Truth in Husserl, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt School
Critical Retrieval
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
An innovative, ambitious, tradition-crossing study drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas to propose a new and transformative concept of truth.
The idea of truth is a guiding theme for German continental philosophers from Husserl through Habermas. In this...
Translating Happiness
A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being—from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch—can enrich our emotional understanding and experience.
Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from outside this...
The Politics of Adoption
Gender and the Making of French Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
An argument that French adoption policies reflect and enforce the state's notions of gender, parenthood, and citizenship.
In May 2013, after months of controversy, France legalized same-sex marriage and adoption by homosexual couples. Obstacles to adoption and parenting equality remain, however—many...
Mobile Communication and Society
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life--or all of the above? Mobile Communication and Society looks at how the possibility of multimodal communication from anywhere to anywhere at...
by Roman Jakobson
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
The first English translation of a classic and groundbreaking work in historical phonology.
This is the first English translation of a groundbreaking 1929 work in historical phonology by the renowned linguist Roman Jakobson, considered the founder of modern structural linguistics. A revolutionary...
by François Grin, Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Insights from the application of economic theories and research methods to the management of linguistic diversity in an era of globalization.
In an era of globalization, issues of language diversity have economic and political implications. Transnational labor mobility, trade, social inclusion...