Mit Press imprint: 940 books
Cosmopolitan Commons
Sharing Resources and Risks across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
A new approach in commons theory to understand the interactions of technology, society, and nature, supported by case studies of new transnational European commons.
With the advent of modernity, the sharing of resources and infrastructures rapidly expanded beyond local communities into regional,...
Shifting Practices
Reflections on Technology, Practice, and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
How disruptions and discontinuities caused by the introduction of new technologies often reveal aspects of practice not previously observed.
What happens in an established practice or work setting when a novel artifact or tool for doing work changes the familiar work routines? Any unexpected...
by Paul M. Churchland
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
An updated edition of an authoritative text showing the relevance for philosophy of mind of theoretical and experimental results in the natural sciences.
In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind...
Post-Treaty Politics
Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
An argument that secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties—are political actors in their own right.
Secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties—-would seem simply to do the bidding of member states. And yet, Sikina Jinnah argues in Post-Treaty...
Beyond the Big Ditch
Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal.
In this innovative book, Ashley Carse traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled...
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....
Imperial Technoscience
Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
A study of science and technology practices that shows how even emergent aspects of research and development remain entangled with established hierarchies.
In the last four decades, during which magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has emerged as a cutting-edge medical technology and a cultural...
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...