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): Catherine Morris • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: ConceptualLucy R. Lippard's famous book, itself resembling an exhibition, is now brought full circle in an exhibition (and catalog) resembling he...

• 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): Steven M. Silverstein | Bita Moghaddam | Til Wykes • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Psychopathology - SchizophreniaLeading researchers address conceptual and technic...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Brian M. Reed • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetrySince the turn of the new millennium English-language verse has entered a new historical phase, but explanations vary as...

• 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): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Jonathan Unger • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Asia - ChinaProvides conceptual insights that put the reader in a position to come to grips intellectually with the complex weave of Chinese nationalist se...

• 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): G. Thomas Couser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Reference"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects--persons who are liable to exposure by ...

• 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): Frederique De Vignemont • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyAn interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-consciousness, considering representation of the body, the ...

• 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): James Elkins • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History - RenaissancePerspective has been a divided subject, orphaned among various disciplines from philosophy to gardening. I...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): Ian Goodfellow | Yoshua Bengio | Aaron Courville • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralAn introduction to a broad range of topics in deep learning, covering mathematical and c...

• 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...