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The Infinite Playground

The Infinite Playground

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

Reconstructing Reason and Representation

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

Philosophy for Passengers

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

The Art of Abduction

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

Neuroscience and Philosophy

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

The Case against Death

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

YEAR 1

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

X-Risk

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

Cynicism

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

Good Entertainment

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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