The Mit Press: 939 books
'And'
Conjunction Reduction Redux
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
A bold argument that “and” always means “&,” the truth-functional sentential connective.
In this book, Barry Schein argues that “and” is always the sentential logical connective with the same, one, meaning. “And” always means “&,” across the varied constructions in which...
Zen-Brain Horizons
Toward a Living Zen
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
A neurologist and Zen practitioner clarifies the benefits of meditative training, drawing on classical Buddhist literature and modern brain research.
In Zen-Brain Horizons, James Austin draws on his decades of experience as a neurologist and Zen practitioner to clarify the benefits of meditative...
by James H. Austin, MD
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Three books on Zen and the brain by the celebrated Zen practitioner-neurologist James Austin.
This compilation in digital form of three books by the celebrated Zen practitioner-neurologist James Austin offers concrete advice about various methods of meditation, provides timeless wisdom of Zen...
The Spider's Thread
Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity.
In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the perspectives of...
The Vestigial Heart
A Novel of the Robot Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
A thirteen-year-old girl wakes up in a future where human emotions are extinct and people rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life.
Imagine a future in which many human emotions are extinct, and “emotional masseuses” try to help people recover those lost sensations. Individuals...
by Mladen Dolar
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2006
A new, philosophically grounded theory of the voice—the voice as the lever of thought, as one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object.
Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more."...
The View from Above
The Science of Social Space
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The role of aerial photography in the evolution of the concept of social space”and its impact on French urban planning in the mid-twentieth century.
In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l'espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably...
by Barry Eichengreen
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable.
In Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods, Barry Eichengreen...
by Paul D. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2004
The art of the mix creates a new language of creativity.
"Once you get into the flow of things, you're always haunted by the way that things could have turned out. This outcome, that conclusion. You get my drift. The uncertainty is what holds the story together, and that's what I'm going to...
Broadcasting Buildings
Architecture on the Wireless, 1927-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
How the BBC shaped popular perceptions of architecture and placed them at the heart of debates over participatory democracy.
In the years between the world wars, millions of people heard the world through a box on the dresser. In Britain, radio listeners relied on the British Broadcasting Corporation...
The Systemic Image
A New Theory of Interactive Real-Time Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
A new conceptualization of the relationship between the systemic and the iconic in real-time simulations that distinguishes among four levels of forming.
Computer simulations conceive objects and situations dynamically, in their changes and progressions. In The Systemic Image, Inge Hinterwaldner...
Evolution in Four Dimensions
Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research.
This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published...
Moral Psychology
Virtue and Character
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Groundbreaking essays and commentaries on the ways that recent findings in psychology and neuroscience illuminate virtue and character and related issues in philosophy.
Philosophers have discussed virtue and character since Socrates, but many traditional views have been challenged by recent...
Moral Psychology
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Leading philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists address issues of moral responsibility and free will, drawing on new findings from empirical science.
Traditional philosophers approached the issues of free will and moral responsibility through conceptual analysis that seldom incorporated...