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From Sensing to Sentience
How Feeling Emerges from the Brain
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.
Stinking Philosophy!
Smell Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness
ISBN: 9780262548885
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 13, 2024
The nature of olfaction; its importance for understanding perennial issues of philosophy of mind, perception, and consciousness; and its implications for cognitive neuroscience.
A Pluralist Theory of Perception
A Pluralist Theory of Perception
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.
Disturbed Consciousness
New Essays on Psychopathology and Theories of Consciousness
ISBN: 9780262552400
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 28, 2024
Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies.
The Cognitive Life of Maps
ISBN: 9780262547086
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 14, 2024
The “mapness of maps”—how maps live in interaction with their users, and what this tells us about what they are and how they work.
Evolving Enactivism
Basic Minds Meet Content
ISBN: 9780262551779
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
An extended argument that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition.
Bots and Beasts
What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?
ISBN: 9780262548540
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
An expert on the mind considers how animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence.
Hallucination
Philosophy and Psychology
ISBN: 9780262551434
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 12, 2024
Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory.
The Spider's Thread
Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry
ISBN: 9780262551472
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 12, 2024
An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity.
From Sensing to Sentience
How Feeling Emerges from the Brain
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.
Stinking Philosophy!
Smell Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness
ISBN: 9780262548885
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 13, 2024
The nature of olfaction; its importance for understanding perennial issues of philosophy of mind, perception, and consciousness; and its implications for cognitive neuroscience.
A Pluralist Theory of Perception
A Pluralist Theory of Perception
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.
Disturbed Consciousness
New Essays on Psychopathology and Theories of Consciousness
ISBN: 9780262552400
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 28, 2024
Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies.
The Cognitive Life of Maps
ISBN: 9780262547086
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 14, 2024
The “mapness of maps”—how maps live in interaction with their users, and what this tells us about what they are and how they work.
Evolving Enactivism
Basic Minds Meet Content
ISBN: 9780262551779
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
An extended argument that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition.
Bots and Beasts
What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?
ISBN: 9780262548540
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
An expert on the mind considers how animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence.
Hallucination
Philosophy and Psychology
ISBN: 9780262551434
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 12, 2024
Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory.
The Spider's Thread
Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry
ISBN: 9780262551472
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 12, 2024
An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity.