Mit Press imprint: 940 books
Do Apes Read Minds?
Toward a New Folk Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don't so much read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations.
By adulthood, most of us have become experts in human behavior, able to make sense of the myriad behaviors we find in...
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...
Monitoring Movements in Development Aid
Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid.
In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures...
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...
Cybernetic Revolutionaries
Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
A historical study of Chiles twin experiments with cybernetics and socialism, and what they tell us about the relationship of technology and politics.
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...
Being Amoral
Psychopathy and Moral Incapacity
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Investigations of specific moral dysfunctions or deficits that shed light on the capacities required for moral agency.
Psychopathy has been the subject of investigations in both philosophy and psychiatry and yet the conceptual issues remain largely unresolved. This volume approaches psychopathy...
Anxiety and the Equation
Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
A man and his equation: the anxiety-plagued nineteenth-century physicist who contributed significantly to our understanding of the second law of thermodynamics.
Ludwig Boltzmann's grave in Vienna's Central Cemetery bears a cryptic epitaph: S = k log W. This equation was Boltzmann's great discovery,...
by Ofer Bergman, Steve Whittaker
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Why we organize our personal digital data the way we do and how design of new PIM systems can help us manage our information more efficiently.
Each of us has an ever-growing collection of personal digital data: documents, photographs, PowerPoint presentations, videos, music, emails and texts...