The Mit Press: 939 books
Linkography
Unfolding the Design Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The description of a method for the notation and analysis of the creative process in design, drawing on insights from design practice and cognitive psychology.
This book presents linkography, a method for the notation and analysis of the design process. Developed by Gabriela Goldschmidt in...
Efficient Cognition
The Evolution of Representational Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.
Many organisms (including humans) make decisions by relying on mental representations. Not simply a reaction triggered by perception, representational...
Living Zen Remindfully
Retraining Subconscious Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
A seasoned Zen practitioner and neurologist looks more deeply at mindfulness, connecting it to our subconscious and to memory and creativity.
This is a book for readers who want to probe more deeply into mindfulness. It goes beyond the casual, once-in-awhile meditation in popular culture, grounding...
The Digital Plenitude
The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
How the creative abundance of today's media culture was made possible by the decline of elitism in the arts and the rise of digital media.
Media culture today encompasses a universe of forms—websites, video games, blogs, books, films, television and radio programs, magazines, and more—and...
by Christos H. Papadimitriou
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
The world of computation according to Turing, an interactive tutoring program, as told to star-crossed lovers: a novel.
Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In this...
Elements of Causal Inference
Foundations and Learning Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
A concise and self-contained introduction to causal inference, increasingly important in data science and machine learning.
The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained...
Forms of Life
The Method and Meaning of Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
A concise, accessible, and engaging guide for students and practitioners of sociology.
In Forms of Life, Harry Collins offers an introduction to social science methodology, drawing on his forty-plus years of conducting high-profile sociological research. In this concise, accessible, and engaging...
Altered States of Consciousness
Experiences Out of Time and Self
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
What altered states of consciousness—the dissolution of feelings of time and self—can tell us about the mystery of consciousness.
During extraordinary moments of consciousness—shock, meditative states and sudden mystical revelations, out-of-body experiences, or drug intoxication—our...
Re-Reasoning Ethics
The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.
In Re-Reasoning Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster and Cliff Hooker enhance and empower ethics by adopting a non-formal paradigm...
What's Left of Human Nature?
A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.
Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy. What does it mean to have a human nature? Is the concept the relic of a bygone age? What is...
The Shared World
Perceptual Common Knowledge, Demonstrative Communication, and Social Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
A novel treatment of the capacity for shared attention, joint action, and perceptual common knowledge.
In The Shared World, Axel Seemann offers a new treatment of the capacity to perceive, act on, and know about the world together with others. Seemann argues that creatures capable of joint...
Responsible Brains
Neuroscience, Law, and Human Culpability
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
An examination of the relationship between the brain and culpability that offers a comprehensive neuroscientific theory of human responsibility.
When we praise, blame, punish, or reward people for their actions, we are holding them responsible for what they have done. Common sense tells us...
Energy at the End of the World
An Orkney Islands Saga
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.
The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland, are closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Surrounded by fierce seas and shrouded by clouds and mist, the islands seem to mark the edge...
The Politics of Invisibility
Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Lessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern hazards that are largely imperceptible.
Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern...