Search results for “[Subject: conceptual]”

• Author(s): Eric Margolis | Stephen Laurence • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionNew essays by leading philosophers and cognitive scientists that present recent findings and theoreti...

• Author(s): Leonard Talmy • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsIn this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level...

• Author(s): Jerry A. Fodor • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyTwo prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property.In cogn...

• Author(s): Ray S. Jackendoff • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralSemantic Structures is a large-scale study of conceptual structure and its lexical and syntactic expression in English that builds ...

• Author(s): Peter Gardenfors • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsA novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures.I...

• Author(s): Paul Thagard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsA cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational ...

• Author(s): Robert C. Morgan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criticism & Theory Art criticism in the 1980s was highly influenced by market forces that somewhat changed the face of th...

• Author(s): Kieran Setiya | Hille Paakkunainen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyA collection of the most important recent work on reasons for action and the question "why be moral?"Some ...

• Author(s): Gregory Murphy • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionConcepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past experiences to our ...

• Author(s): James Meadowcroft | Daniel J. Fiorino • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyConcepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of el...

• Author(s): Robert N. Brandon | Richard Burian • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsThis anthology collects some of the most important papers on what is believed to be the major fo...

• Author(s): Jack Burnham | Melissa Ragain | Hans Haacke • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryInfluential writings by the legendary art critic and theorist Jack Burnham--a pioneer in new media syste...

• Author(s): Zenon W. Pylyshyn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralThe question, "What is Cognitive Science?" is often asked but seldom answered to anyone's satisfaction. Until now, most...

• Author(s): Eric Margolis | Stephen Laurence • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionConcepts Core Readings traces the develoment of one of the most active areas of investigati...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Bennett Simpson • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - EssaysThe first comprehensive survey of a pioneering artist, encompassing photographs, film and video, architectural models, ...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Gunnar Liestol | Andrew Morrison | Terje Rasmussen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesInterdisciplinary essays on the relationship between practice and theory in new media.Arguing that "first ...

• Author(s): Ray S. Jackendoff • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: LogicOver the past two decades, Ray Jackendoff has persistently tackled difficult issues in the theory of mind and related theories of cognitive...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): William G. Lycan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousn...

• Author(s): Masahiko Aoki • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralA conceptual and analytical framework for understanding economic institutions and institutional change. Markets are one of the most salie...

• Author(s): Steven Scott Aspenson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: MethodologyA concise introduction to the basic elements of argumentative prose and the conceptual tools necessary to understand, analyze, criticize,...

• Author(s): Connie Barlow • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyFrom Gaia to Selfish Genes is a different kind of anthology. Lively excerpts from the popular writings of leading theorists in the li...

• Author(s): Daniel A. Mazmanian | Michael E. Kraft • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - Sustainable DevelopmentA new edition with new and updated case studies and analysis that demonstrate the trend in U.S...

• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Alfred Hitchcock's imperative was to charge the screen with emotion. Subject matter and ac...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Over the course of 80 years television has produced countless programs, many of which fit a particular ...

• Author(s): Alexander Alberro • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: ConceptualWell-known art historians from Europe and the Americas discuss the influence of conceptualism on art since the 1970s.Art After Conceptual Art ...