The Mit Press: 939 books
The Body Populace
Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre–World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body.
In pre–World War I Europe, individual fitness was increasingly related to building and preserving collective society. Army...
by Lino Camprubí
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
How engineers and agricultural scientists became key actors inFranco's regime and Spain's forced modernization.
In this book, Lino Camprubí argues that science and technology were at the very center of the building of Franco's Spain. Previous histories of early Francoist science and technology...
Open Minds
The Social Making of Agency and Intentionality
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
A novel proposal that the cognitive architecture for volition and cognition arises from particular kinds of social interaction and communication.
In Open Minds, Wolfgang Prinz offers the novel claim that agency and intentionality are first perceived and understood in others, and that it is...
Mindshaping
A New Framework for Understanding Human Social Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
A proposal that human social cognition would not have evolved without mechanisms and practices that shape minds in ways that make them easier to interpret.
In this novel account of distinctively human social cognition, Tadeusz Zawidzki argues that the key distinction between human and nonhuman...
by Gerd Gigerenzer, Shira Elqayam, Jean Baratgin
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Examining the role of implicit, unconscious thinking on reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and its neurocognitive basis, for a genuinely psychological conception of rationality.
This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide...
Mental Time Travel
Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Drawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as imagining the past.
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...
The Cognitive-Emotional Brain
From Interactions to Integration
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
A study that goes beyond the debate over functional specialization to describe the ways that emotion and cognition interact and are integrated in the brain.
The idea that a specific brain circuit constitutes the emotional brain (and its corollary, that cognition resides elsewhere) shaped thinking...
Liquidation World
On the Art of Living Absently
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; from Baudelaire to Broodthaers.
In Liquidation World, Alexi Kukuljevic examines a distinctive form of subjectivity animating the avant-garde: that of the darkly humorous and...
Transient Workspaces
Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
An account of technology in Africa from an African perspective, examining hunting in Zimbabwe as an example of an innovative mobile workspace.
In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought...
Reframing Rights
Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Investigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA profiling by law enforcement.
Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure of...
The Heart of the Brain
The Hypothalamus and Its Hormones
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
How hormonal signals in one small structure of the brain—the hypothalamus—govern our physiology and behavior.
As human beings, we prefer to think of ourselves as reasonable. But how much of what we do is really governed by reason? In this book, Gareth Leng considers the extent to which...
Feeling Extended
Sociality as Extended Body-Becoming-Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
A new view of the extended mind thesis argues that a stark binary opposition between really extending and seeming to extend oversimplifies the issue.
The extended-mind thesis (EMT), usually attributed to Andy Clark and David Chalmers, proposes that in specific kinds of mind-body-world interaction...
Turing's Vision
The Birth of Computer Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Turing's fascinating and remarkable theory, which now forms the basis of computer science, explained for the general reader.
In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the ideas that underlie...
Subversion, Conversion, Development
Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.
This book explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies. These encounters are alternative because they counter dominant, Western-oriented notions...