Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
The Life and Mind series from the MIT Press aims to re-conceptualize the philosophy of biology and psychology by showcasing works that contribute to a meaningful cross-dialogue between philosophers and scientists. Books in the series focus on philosophical issues that arise from, and are relevant to, the practitioners in the behavioral, biological, and cognitive sciences.
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Cooperation and Its Evolution
ISBN: 9780262552783
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 6, 2024
Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world.
Rock, Bone, and Ruin
An Optimist's Guide to the Historical Sciences
ISBN: 9780262552035
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 21, 2024
An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past.
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.
Beyond Versus
The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture
ISBN: 9780262549608
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
Why the “nature versus nurture” debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture.
What's Left of Human Nature?
A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept
ISBN: 9780262549684
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.
From Signal to Symbol
The Evolution of Language
ISBN: 9780262045971
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 12, 2021
A novel account of the evolution of language and the cognitive capacities on which language depends.
The Evolution of Morality
ISBN: 9780262600729
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 24, 2007
Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million...
Humanity's End
Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement
ISBN: 9780262525176
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 16, 2013
An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives.
Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
ISBN: 9780262514217
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 22, 2010
A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results.
Describing Inner Experience?
Proponent Meets Skeptic
ISBN: 9780262516495
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 19, 2011
A psychologist and a philosopher with opposing viewpoints discuss the extent to which it is possible to report accurately on our own conscious experience, considering both the reliability of introspection in general and the particular self-reported inner experiences of "Melanie," a subject interviewed using the Descriptive Experience Sampling method.
Cooperation and Its Evolution
ISBN: 9780262552783
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 6, 2024
Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world.
Rock, Bone, and Ruin
An Optimist's Guide to the Historical Sciences
ISBN: 9780262552035
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 21, 2024
An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past.
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.
Beyond Versus
The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture
ISBN: 9780262549608
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
Why the “nature versus nurture” debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture.
What's Left of Human Nature?
A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept
ISBN: 9780262549684
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.
From Signal to Symbol
The Evolution of Language
ISBN: 9780262045971
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 12, 2021
A novel account of the evolution of language and the cognitive capacities on which language depends.
The Evolution of Morality
ISBN: 9780262600729
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 24, 2007
Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million...
Humanity's End
Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement
ISBN: 9780262525176
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 16, 2013
An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives.
Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
ISBN: 9780262514217
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 22, 2010
A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results.
Describing Inner Experience?
Proponent Meets Skeptic
ISBN: 9780262516495
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 19, 2011
A psychologist and a philosopher with opposing viewpoints discuss the extent to which it is possible to report accurately on our own conscious experience, considering both the reliability of introspection in general and the particular self-reported inner experiences of "Melanie," a subject interviewed using the Descriptive Experience Sampling method.