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The Feeling of Space
ISBN: 9780262049368
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 31, 2024
A richly illustrated exploration of humanity's drive to shape life as a spatial project, from Plato's time to the digital era.
Cognitive Biology
Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on Mind, Brain, and Behavior
ISBN: 9780262551892
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 30, 2024
An overview of current research at the intersection of psychology and biology, integrating evolutionary and developmental data and explanations.
The Targeting System of Language
The Targeting System of Language
ISBN: 9780262551793
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
A proposal that a single linguistic/cognitive system, “targeting,” underlies two domains of reference, anaphora (speech-internal) and deixis (speech-external).
Animal Thinking
Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition
ISBN: 9780262551496
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
Experts from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ecology, and evolutionary biology assess the field of animal cognition.
The Science of Weird Shit
Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal
ISBN: 9780262048361
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
An accessible and gratifying introduction to the world of paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences.
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.
Language vs. Reality
Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
ISBN: 9780262548465
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind's greatest invention.
The Ghost in the Addict
ISBN: 9780262547970
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
How withdrawal distress and cravings can haunt current and former addicts, and what they can teach us about addiction and its treatments.
Mental Time Travel
Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past
ISBN: 9780262551151
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
Drawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as imagining the past.
The Feeling of Space
ISBN: 9780262049368
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 31, 2024
A richly illustrated exploration of humanity's drive to shape life as a spatial project, from Plato's time to the digital era.
Cognitive Biology
Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on Mind, Brain, and Behavior
ISBN: 9780262551892
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 30, 2024
An overview of current research at the intersection of psychology and biology, integrating evolutionary and developmental data and explanations.
The Targeting System of Language
The Targeting System of Language
ISBN: 9780262551793
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
A proposal that a single linguistic/cognitive system, “targeting,” underlies two domains of reference, anaphora (speech-internal) and deixis (speech-external).
Animal Thinking
Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition
ISBN: 9780262551496
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
Experts from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ecology, and evolutionary biology assess the field of animal cognition.
The Science of Weird Shit
Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal
ISBN: 9780262048361
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
An accessible and gratifying introduction to the world of paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences.
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.
Language vs. Reality
Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
ISBN: 9780262548465
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind's greatest invention.
The Ghost in the Addict
ISBN: 9780262547970
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
How withdrawal distress and cravings can haunt current and former addicts, and what they can teach us about addiction and its treatments.
Mental Time Travel
Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past
ISBN: 9780262551151
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
Drawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as imagining the past.