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The Infinite Playground

A Player's Guide to Imagination

by Bernard De Koven

With Holly Gramazio

Edited by Celia Pearce and Eric Zimmerman

ISBN: 9780262543866

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 21, 2022

A play-centered invitation to experience the power and delight unlocked by imagination.

Reconstructing Reason and Representation

by Murray Clarke

ISBN: 9780262545754

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 7, 2022

A study of the philosophical implications of evolutionary psychology, suggesting that knowledge is a set of natural kinds housed in the modules of a massively modular mind.

Philosophy for Passengers

by Michael Marder

ISBN: 9780262543712

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 3, 2022

A philosophical guide to passengerhood, with reflections on time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses.

The Art of Abduction

by Igor Douven

ISBN: 9780262046701

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 3, 2022

A novel defense of abduction, one of the main forms of nondeductive reasoning.

Neuroscience and Philosophy

Edited by Felipe De Brigard and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

ISBN: 9780262045438

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 1, 2022

Philosophers and neuroscientists address central issues in both fields, including morality, action, mental illness, consciousness, perception, and memory.

The Case against Death

by Ingemar Patrick Linden

ISBN: 9780262543163

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 1, 2022

A philosopher refutes our culturally embedded acceptance of death, arguing instead for the desirability of anti-aging science and radical life extension.

YEAR 1

A Philosophical Recounting

by Susan Buck-Morss

ISBN: 9780262044875

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 13, 2021

Reclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences: liberating the past to speak to us in another way.

X-Risk

How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction

by Thomas Moynihan

ISBN: 9781913029845

Publisher: Urbanomic

Pub Date: November 3, 2020

How humanity came to contemplate its possible extinction.

Cynicism

by Ansgar Allen

ISBN: 9780262537889

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 14, 2020

A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present.

Good Entertainment

A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative

by Byung-Chul Han

Translated by Adrian Nathan West

ISBN: 9780262537506

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 8, 2019

A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety—infotainment, edutainment, servotainment—and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg.

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