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Deflating Mental Representation

by Frances Egan

ISBN: 9780262551601

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 11, 2025

A novel account of the explanatory role of representation in both the cognitive sciences and commonsense practice that preserves the virtues without the defects of the prevailing two views about mental representation.

Scaffolded Minds

Integration and Disintegration

by Somogy Varga

ISBN: 9780262553407

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 19, 2024

A comprehensive account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders.

From Sensing to Sentience

How Feeling Emerges from the Brain

by Todd E. Feinberg

ISBN: 9780262550956

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 1, 2024

A new theory of Neurobiological Emergentism that explains how sentience emerges from the brain.

The Spontaneous Brain

From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem

by Georg Northoff

ISBN: 9780262552820

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 6, 2024

An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features—a shift in which the world-brain problem supersedes the mind-body problem.

A Pluralist Theory of Perception

by Neil Mehta

ISBN: 9780262548281

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 6, 2024

A new theory of perception that posits that conscious perception consists not of a single kind of awareness, but of two radically different kinds deployed in concert.

Stinking Philosophy!

Smell Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness

by Benjamin Young

ISBN: 9780262548885

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 6, 2024

The nature of olfaction; its importance for understanding perennial issues of philosophy of mind, perception, and consciousness; and its implications for cognitive neuroscience.

Cognitive Pluralism

by Steven Horst

ISBN: 9780262552615

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 2, 2024

An argument that we understand the world through many special-purpose mental models of different content domains, and an exploration of the philosophical implications.