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Arguments that Count
Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012
ISBN: 9780262549578
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
How differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense.
Beyond Versus
The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture
ISBN: 9780262549608
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
Why the “nature versus nurture” debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture.
The Empire of Value
A New Foundation for Economics
ISBN: 9780262549585
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
An argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to develop a new and more powerful theory of market behavior.
The Systemic Image
A New Theory of Interactive Real-Time Simulations
ISBN: 9780262549646
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
A new conceptualization of the relationship between the systemic and the iconic in real-time simulations that distinguishes among four levels of forming.
Ecstatic Worlds
Media, Utopias, Ecologies
ISBN: 9780262549745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's “Family of Man,” Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.
Borges and Memory
Encounters with the Human Brain
ISBN: 9780262549561
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
A scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who could not forget.
Dolphin Communication and Cognition
Dolphin Communication and Cognition
Past, Present, and Future
ISBN: 9780262549622
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
Experts survey the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, offering a comprehensive reference to findings in the laboratory and from the field.
Classifying Psychopathology
Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds
ISBN: 9780262549592
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
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.
What's Left of Human Nature?
A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept
ISBN: 9780262549684
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.
Alien Agency
Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making
ISBN: 9780262549615
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways beyond the creators' intentions.
Arguments that Count
Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012
ISBN: 9780262549578
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
How differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense.
Beyond Versus
The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture
ISBN: 9780262549608
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
Why the “nature versus nurture” debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture.
The Empire of Value
A New Foundation for Economics
ISBN: 9780262549585
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
An argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to develop a new and more powerful theory of market behavior.
The Systemic Image
A New Theory of Interactive Real-Time Simulations
ISBN: 9780262549646
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
A new conceptualization of the relationship between the systemic and the iconic in real-time simulations that distinguishes among four levels of forming.
Ecstatic Worlds
Media, Utopias, Ecologies
ISBN: 9780262549745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's “Family of Man,” Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.
Borges and Memory
Encounters with the Human Brain
ISBN: 9780262549561
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
A scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who could not forget.
Dolphin Communication and Cognition
Dolphin Communication and Cognition
Past, Present, and Future
ISBN: 9780262549622
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
Experts survey the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, offering a comprehensive reference to findings in the laboratory and from the field.
Classifying Psychopathology
Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds
ISBN: 9780262549592
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
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.
What's Left of Human Nature?
A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept
ISBN: 9780262549684
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.
Alien Agency
Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making
ISBN: 9780262549615
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways beyond the creators' intentions.