Mit Press: 1072 books

An illustrated study that casts a new light on Oiticicas most important work of “quasi-cinema” on its fortieth anniversary.

This groundbreaking inquiry into the centrality of place in Martin Heidegger's thinking offers not only an illuminating reading of Heidegger's thought but a detailed investigation into the way in which the concept of place relates to core philosophical issues. In Heidegger's Topology, Jeff Malpas...

An anecdotal guide for the perplexed new investigator as well as a refreshing resource for the old pro, covering everything from valuable personality traits for an investigator to social factors conducive to scientific work. Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a mythic figure in science. Hailed as...

Every architectural move is set in a landscape. This book is about those landscapes and the strategies that govern what we've done in shaping them.

An argument that there are perceptual mechanisms that retrieve information in cognitively and conceptually unmediated ways and that this sheds light on various philosophical issues.

The rise of heterosexual culture and the resistance it met from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession.

An analysis of Newtons mathematical work, from early discoveries to mature reflections, and a discussion of Newtons views on the role and nature of mathematics.

The first sustained examination of a canonical and widely exhibited work by a leading artist of the former Yugoslavia.

Noam Chomsky as political gadfly, groundbreaking scholar, and intellectual guru: key issues in Chomsky's career and the sometimes contentious reception to his ideas.

An engaging exploration of the mutually productive interaction of literature and energy science in the Victorian era, as seen in Tennyson, Dickens, Stoker, and others.

A Western-trained psychoanalyst returns to her homeland and tells stories of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain.

What is a self? Does it exist in reality or is it a mere social construct—or is it perhaps a neurologically induced illusion? The legitimacy of the concept of the self has been questioned by both neuroscientists and philosophers in recent years. Countering this, in Subjectivity and Selfhood, Dan...

A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism. Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel...

A consideration of the distinction between the spatiotemporal furniture of the world (tokens) and the types of which they are instances, and an argument that types exist.