Mit Press imprint: 940 books
Classifying Psychopathology
Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement.
In this volume, leading philosophers of psychiatry examine psychiatric classification systems, including...
Felt Time
The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
An expert explores the riddle of subjective time, from why time speeds up as we grow older to the connection between time and consciousness.
We have widely varying perceptions of time. Children have trouble waiting for anything. (“Are we there yet?”) Boredom is often connected to our sense...
The Anatomy of Bias
How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
An integrative account of the neural underpinnings of decision making, emphasizing the ways in which some information sources are given more weight than others.
I will recklessly endeavor to scavenge materials from these various fields with the single aim of producing a coherent, but open-minded...
Computer Games for Learning
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
A comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of what research shows about the educational value of computer games for learning.
Many strong claims are made for the educational value of computer games, but there is a need for systematic examination of the research evidence that might support...
Plato's Camera
How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
A noted philosopher draws on the empirical results and conceptual resources of cognitive neuroscience to address questions about the nature of knowledge.
In Plato's Camera, eminent philosopher Paul Churchland offers a novel account of how the brain constructs a representation—or "takes a...
Infectious Behavior
Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Depression
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
An examination of brain-immune system communication in autism, schizophrenia, and depression.
In Infectious Behavior, neurobiologist Paul Patterson examines the involvement of the immune system in autism, schizophrenia, and major depressive disorder. Although genetic approaches to these diseases...
Understanding Pain: Exploring the Perception of Pain
Exploring the Perception of Pain
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
An expert explores the nature of pain: why it hurts and why some pain is good and some pain is bad.
A Hole in the Head
More Tales in the History of Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys—from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells—in the history of brain sciences.
Neuroscientist Charles Gross has been interested in the history of his field since his days as an undergraduate. A Hole in the...
The Myth of the Moral Brain
The Limits of Moral Enhancement
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
An argument that moral functioning is immeasurably complex, mediated by biology but not determined by it.
Throughout history, humanity has been seen as being in need of improvement, most pressingly in need of moral improvement. Today, in what has been called the beginnings of “the golden...
The Geometry of Meaning
Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures.
In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gärdenfors proposes a theory of semantics that bridges cognitive science and linguistics and shows how theories of cognitive processes,...
Minds without Meanings
An Essay on the Content of Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property.
In cognitive science, conceptual content is frequently understood as the “meaning” of a mental representation. This position raises largely empirical questions...
A Mark of the Mental
In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation.
In A Mark of the Mental, Karen Neander considers the representational power of mental states—described by the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn...
by Moheb Costandi
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes—with or without “brain training.”
Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains and nervous systems change...
Joint Attention
New Developments in Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, and Social Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Interdisciplinary perspectives on definitional concerns, underlying mechanisms, and the functional significance of joint attention.
Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention—the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature—has increased rapidly over the past...