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The Bodily SelfSelected EssaysJosé Luis Bermúdez (Texas A&M University)
Essays on the role of the body in self-con-sciousness, showing that full-fl edged, linguistic self-consciousness is built on a rich foundation of primitive, nonconceptual self-consciousness.2018 | 312 pp. | 978-0-262-03750-1 | $40/£32.95
The Conceptual MindNew Directions in the Study of ConceptsEdited by Eric Margolis (University of British Columbia) and Stephen Laurence (University of Sheffi eld)2015 | 728 pp. | 978-0-262-02863-9 | $61/£50.95
Efficient CognitionThe Evolution of Representational Decision MakingArmin W. Schulz (University of Kansas)
An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively effi cient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.2018 | 288 pp. | 978-0-262-03760-0 | $45/£37.95
The Subject’s MatterSelf-Consciousness and the BodyEdited by Frédérique de Vignemont (Ecole Normale Supérieure) and Adrian J. T. Alsmith (University of Copenhagen)
An interdisciplinary and comprehensive treat-ment of bodily self-consciousness, considering representation of the body, the sense of bodily ownership, and representation of the self.2017 | 424 pp. | 978-0-262-03683-2 | $45/£37.95Representation and Mind series
Panpsychism in the WestRevised EditionDavid F. Skrbina
An updated edition of a comprehensive study of the theory that mind exists, in some form, in all living and nonliving things.2017 | 384 pp. | 978-0-262-53406-2 | $35/£27.95
Polyphonic MindsMusic of the Hemispheres Peter Pesic (St. John’s College)
An exploration of polyphony and the perspec-tive it offers on our own polyphonic brains. 2017 | 344 pp. | 978-0-262-03691-7 | $38/£31.95
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Living with ComplexityDonald A. Norman
Why we don’t really want simplicity, and how we can learn to live with complexity.(Cloth 2010) | 312 pp. | 978-0-262-52894-8 $20.95/£16.95
Children with Specific Language ImpairmentsSecond EditionLaurence B Leonard (Purdue University)2017 | 490 pp. | 978-0-262-53540-3 | $58.00/£48.95
Mindmade PoliticsThe Cognitive Roots of International Climate GovernanceManjana Milkoreit (Purdue University)
How integrating cognitive theories and interna-tional relations scholarship can yield valu-able insights into the effectiveness of climate negotiations.2017 | 352 pp. | 978-0-262-03630-6 | $45/£37.95
The Embodied Mind Cognitive Science and Human ExperienceRevised EditionFrancisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson (University of British Columbia), and Eleanor Rosch (University of California, Berkeley)
Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn (Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School)
A new edition of a classic work that originated the “embodied cognition” movement and was one of the fi rst to link science and Buddhist practices.2017 | 392 pp. | 978-0-262-52936-5 | $30/£24.95
The Expressive MomentHow Interaction (with Music) Shapes Human EmpowermentMarc Leman (Ghent University)
A new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-refl ective processes underlying interactions with music.2016 | 256 pp. | 978-0-262-03493-7 | $45/£37.95
Embodiment, Enaction, and CultureInvestigating the Constitution of the Shared WorldEdited by Christoph Durt (University of Heidelberg), Thomas Fuchs (University of Heidelberg), and Christian Tewes (University of Jena)
The fi rst interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural context of enactive embodiment, offering perspectives that range from the neuro-philosophical to the anthropological.2017 | 456 pp. | 978-0-262-03555-2 | $55/£45.95
A Mark of the MentalIn Defense of Informational TeleosemanticsKaren Neander (Duke University)
Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation.2017 | 344 pp. | 978-0-262-03614-6 | $40/£32.95Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
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Storytelling and the Sciences of MindDavid Herman (Durham University)(Cloth 2013) | 448 pp. | 978-0-262-53377-5 | $35/£27.95
Minding the WeatherHow Expert Forecasters ThinkRobert R. Hoffman (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition), J. Gregory Trafton (Naval Research Lab), Paul J. Roebber (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee), H. Michael Mogil (How the Weatherworks), and Daphne S. LaDue (University of Oklahoma)
A detailed study of research on the psychology of expertise in weather forecasting, drawing on fi ndings in cognitive science, meteorology, and computer science.2017 | 488 pp. | 978-0-262-03606-1 | $55/£45.95
BrainstormsPhilosophical Essays on Mind and PsychologyFortieth Anniversary EditionDaniel C. Dennett (Tufts University)
An anniversary edition of a classic in cognitive science, with a new introduction by the author.2017 | 440 pp. | 978-0-262-53438-3 | $34.95/£27.95
Open MindPhilosophy and the Mind Sciences in the 21st CenturyEdited by Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) and Jennifer M. Windt (Monash University)
A unique interdisciplinary collection of papers and commentaries by leading researchers and rising scholars, representing the latest research on consciousness, mind, and brain.2016 | 1864 pp. | 978-0-262-03460-9 | $285/£233.95
Sources of PowerHow People Make Decisions20th Anniversary EditionGary Klein
A modern classic about how people really make decisions: drawing on prior experience, using a combination of intuition and analysis.2017 | 360 pp. | 978-0-262-53429-1 | $29.95/£24.95 T
Building the Intentional UniversityMinerva and the Future of Higher EducationEdited by Stephen M. Kosslyn (Minerva Schools at KGI) and Ben Nelson (Minerva Schools at KGI)
Foreword by Senator Bob Kerrey (Minerva Schools at KGI)
How to reinvent higher education for the twenty-fi rst century: building Minerva.2017 | 456 pp. | 978-0-262-03715-0 | $45/£37.95
Lifelong KindergartenCultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and PlayMitchel Resnick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Foreword by Sir Ken Robinson
How lessons from kindergarten can help every-one develop the creative thinking skills needed to thrive in today’s society.2017 | 208 pp. | 978-0-262-03729-7 | $24.95/£19.95
Actual CausalityJoseph Y. Halpern (Cornell University)
A new approach for defining causality and such related notions as degree of responsibility, degrees of blame, and causal explanation.2016 | 240 pp. | 978-0-262-03502-6 | $50/£41.95
Reasoning about UncertaintySecond EditionJoseph Y. Halpern (Cornell University)
Formal ways of representing uncertainty and various logics for reasoning about it; updated with new material on weighted probability measures, complexity-theoretic considerations, and other topics.2017 | 504 pp. | 978-0-262-53380-5 | $65/£54.95
Giving a DamnEssays in Dialogue with John HaugelandEdited by Zed Adams (The New School for Social Research) and Jacob Browning (The New School for Social Research)
A collection of essays that use John Hauge-land’s work on intentionality, embodiment, objectivity, and caring to explore contemporary issues in philosophy of mind.2016 | 384 pp. | 978-0-262-03524-8 | $50/£41.95
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Minds without MeaningsAn Essay on the Content of ConceptsJerry A. Fodor and Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts’ sole semantic property.2016 | 208 pp. | 978-0-262-52981-5 | $20/£14.95
The Mind–Body ProblemJonathan Westphal (Hampshire College)
An introduction to the mind–body problem, covering all the proposed solutions and offering a powerful new one.2016 | 240 pp. | 978-0-262-52956-3 | $15.95/£11.95The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Visual PhenomenologyMichael Madary (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Phenomenological and empirical methods of investigating visual experience converge to support the thesis that visual perception is an ongoing process of anticipation and fulfillment.2017 | 264 pp. | 978-0-262-03545-3 | $45/£37.95
Evolving Enactivism Basic Minds Meet ContentDaniel D. Hutto and Erik Myin
An extended argument that cognitive phenom-ena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition.2017 | 360 pp. | 978-0-262-03611-5 | $35/£27.95
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Radicalizing EnactivismBasic Minds without ContentDaniel D. Hutto and Erik Myin (Cloth 2013) | 232 pp. | 978-0-262-53464-2$30/£24.95
Experienced WholenessIntegrating Insights from Gestalt Theory, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Predictive ProcessingWanja Wiese (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
An interdisciplinary account of phenomenal unity, investigating how experiential wholes can be characterized and how such characteriza-tions can be analyzed computationally.2017 | 368 pp. | 978-0-262-03699-3 | $50/£41.95
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The Feeling BodyAffective Science Meets the Enactive MindGiovanna Colombetti (University of Exeter)(Cloth 2014) | 288 pp. | 978-0-262-53376-8 $30/£24.95
The Anxious MindAn Investigation of the Varieties and Virtues of AnxietyCharlie Kurth (Washington Universityin St. Louis)
An empirically informed, philosophical account of the nature of anxiety and its value for agency, virtue, and decision making.2018 | 264 pp. | 978-0-262-03765-5 | $35/£27.95
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ConsciousnessConfessions of a Romantic ReductionistChristof Koch (Allen Institute for Brain Science)
In which a scientist searches for an empiri-cal explanation for phenomenal experience, spurred by his instinctual belief that life is meaningful.(Cloth 2012) | 200 pp. | 978-0-262-53350-8 $16.95/£14.95
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The Ancient Origins of Consciousness How the Brain Created ExperienceTodd E. Feinberg, M.D. (Beth Israel Medical Center) and Jon M. Mallatt, Ph.D. (Washing-ton State University)(Cloth 2016) | 392 pp. | 978-0-262-53460-4 $25/£19.95
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Outside ColorPerceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in PhilosophyM. Chirimuuta (University of Pittsburgh)(Cloth 2015) | 264 pp. | 978-0-262-53457-4 $30/£24.95
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Felt TimeThe Science of How We Experience TimeMarc Wittmann
translated by Erik Butler(Cloth 2016) | 184 pp. | 978-0-262-53354-6 $15.95/£13.95
Rock, Bone, and RuinAn Optimist’s Guide to the Historical SciencesAdrian Currie (University of Cambridge)
An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past.2018 | 376 pp. | 978-0-262-03726-6 | $35/£27.95Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Mental Time TravelEpisodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal PastKourken Michaelian (Univeristy of Otago)
Drawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as imagining the past. 2016 | 312 pp. | 978-0-262-03409-8 | $43/£35.95Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Moral Judgments as Educated IntuitionsHanno Sauer (Utrecht University)
An argument that moral reasoning plays a cru-cial role in moral judgment through episodes of rational reflection that have established patterns for automatic judgment foundation.2017 | 328 pp. | 978-0-262-03560-6 | $50/£41.95
Beyond the SelfConversations between Buddhism and NeuroscienceMatthieu Ricard (Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery) and Wolf Singer (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)
Converging and diverging views on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, perception, meditation, and other topics.2017 | 296 pp. | 978-0-262-03694-8 | $29.95/£24.95
Living Zen RemindfullyRetraining Subconscious AwarenessJames H. Austin, M.D.(Cloth 2016) | 328 pp. | 978-0-262-53532-8$18.95/£14.95
Cannabinoids and the BrainLinda A. Parker (University of Guelph)
A review of the scientific evidence on the ef-fects of cannabinoids on brain and behavioral functioning, with an emphasis on potential therapeutic use.2017 | 248 pp. | 978-0-262-03579-8 | $35/£27.95
Real HallucinationsPsychiatric Illness, Intentionality, and the Interpersonal WorldMatthew Ratcliffe (University of Vienna)
A philosophical account of the structure of ex-perience and how it depends on interpersonal relations, developed through a study of auditory verbal hallucinations and thought insertion.2017 | 304 pp. | 978-0-262-03671-9 | $40/£32.95Philosophical Psychopathology
A New Understanding of Mental DisordersComputational Models for Dimensional PsychiatryAndreas Heinz (Charité Campus Mitte)
A new computational and dimensional ap-proach to understanding and classifying mental disorders: modeling key learning and decision-making mechanisms across different mental disorders.2017 | 224 pp. | 978-0-262-03689-4 | $35/£27.95
Computational PsychiatryNew Perspectives on Mental IllnessEdited by A. David Redish (University of Minnesota) and Joshua A. Gordon (Columbia University)
Psychiatrists and neuroscientists discuss the potential of computational approaches to address problems in psychiatry including diagnosis, treatment, and integration with neurobiology.2016 | 424 pp. | 978-0-262-03542-2 | $45/£37.95Strüngmann Forum Reports
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health ResearchEdited by Jeffrey Poland (Rhode Island School of Design) and Şerife Tekin (Daemen College)
Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiat-ric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5.2017 | 344 pp. | 978-0-262-03548-4 | $50/£41.95Philosophical Psychopathology
Elements of Ethics for Physical ScientistsSandra C. Greer (University of Maryland)
A guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers.2017 | 256 pp. | 978-0-262-03688-7 | $50/£41.95 T
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True EnoughCatherine Z. Elgin (Harvard University)
The development of an epistemology that ex-plains how science and art embody and convey understanding.2017 | 352 pp. | 978-0-262-03653-5 | $35/£27.95
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Mind in ArchitectureNeuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of DesignEdited by Sarah Robinson (Sarah Robinson Architect) and Juhani Pallasmaa (Juhani Pallasmaa Architects)2017 | 272 pp. | 978-0-262-53360-7 | $39.95/£32.95
Post-TruthLee C. McIntyre
How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alter-native facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.2018 | 224 pp. | 978-0-262-53504-5 | $15.95/£11.95 The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
PseudoscienceThe Conspiracy Against ScienceEdited by Allison B. Kaufman (University of Connecticut) and James C. Kaufman (University of Connecticut)
Case studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudosci-ence in a post-truth world.2018 | 536 pp. | 978-0-262-03742-6 | $40/£32.95
No One’s WaysAn Essay on Infinite NamingDaniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University)
From Homer’s Outis—“No One,” or “Non-One,” “No Man,” or “Non-Man”— to “soul,” “spirit,” and the unnamable.2017 | 336 pp. | 978-1-935408-88-8 | $32.95/£27.95 Zone Books
The Form of BecomingEmbryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760–1830Janina Wellmann (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
translated by Kate Sturge
An examination of the constitutive role of rhythm and movement in the visualization of developing life.2017 | 424 pp. | 978-1-935408-76-5 | $34.95/£27.95 Zone Books
SynesthesiaRichard E. Cytowic, M.D.
An accessible, concise primer on the neuro-logical trait of synesthesia—vividly felt sensory couplings—by a founder of the field.2018 | 288 pp. | 978-0-262-53509-0 | $15.95/£11.95 The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
The Essential TverskyAmos Tversky (Stanford University)
Edited and with an introduction by Eldar Shafir (Princeton University)
Foreword by Michael Lewis (Writers House LLC)
Afterword by Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University)
Some of the best and most influential papers by Amos Tversky, one of the most brilliant social science thinkers of the twentieth century.2018 | 416 pp. | 978-0-262-53510-6 | $35/£27.95
Translating HappinessA Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-BeingTim Lomas (University of East London)
How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being—from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch—can enrich our emotional understand-ing and experience.2018 | 240 pp. | 978-0-262-03748-8 | $29.95/£24.95
The Illusion of Conscious WillNew EditionDaniel M. Wegner
Foreword by Daniel Gilbert (Harvard University)
Introduction by Thalia Wheatley (Dartmouth College)2018 | 432 pp. | 978-0-262-53492-5 | $30/£24.95
AgeismStereotyping and Prejudice against Older PersonsSecond EditionEdited by Todd D. Nelson (California State University)
Current research and theory from a range of disciplines on ageism, discussing issues from elder abuse to age discrimination against work-ers, revised and updated.2017 | 376 pp. | 978-0-262-53340-9 | $40/£32.95
The Social Turn in Moral PsychologyMark Fedyk (Mount Allison University)
An argument that moral psychology can benefit from closer integration with the social sciences, offering a novel ethical theory bridging the two.2017 | 256 pp. | 978-0-262-03556-9 | $40/£32.95
Moral Psychology Virtue and CharacterVolume 5Edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University) and Christian B. Miller (Wake Forest University)
Groundbreaking essays and commentaries on the ways that recent findings in psychology and neuroscience illuminate virtue and character and related issues in philosophy.2017 | 632 pp. | 978-0-262-03557-6 | $100/£83.95
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The Distracted MindAncient Brains in a High-Tech WorldAdam Gazzaley (University of California, San Francisco) and Larry D. Rosen (California State University, Dominguez Hills)
Why our brains aren’t built for media multitask-ing, and how we can learn to live with technol-ogy in a more balanced way.(Cloth 2016) | 304 pp. | 978-0-262-53443-7 $17.95/£14.95
The Computational Brain25th Anniversary EditionPatricia S. Churchland and Terrence J. Sejnowski (Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
An anniversary edition of the classic work that influenced a generation of neuroscientists and cognitive neuroscientists.2016 | 568 pp. | 978-0-262-53339-3 | $45/£37.95 Computational Neuroscience series
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The Digital MindHow Science Is Redefining HumanityArlindo Oliveira (Instituto Superior Técnico)
How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds—intelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain.(Cloth 2017) | 340 pp. | 978-0-262-53523-6 $19.95/£14.95
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Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AIHector J. Levesque (University of Toronto)
What artificial intelligence can tell us about the mind and intelligent behavior.(Cloth 2017) | 192 pp. | 978-0-262-53520-5 $16.95/£14.95
Robot SexSocial and Ethical ImplicationsEdited by John Danaher (National University of Ireland) and Neil McArthur (University of Manitoba)
Perspectives from philosophy, psychology reli-gious studies, economics, and law on the pos-sible future of robot-human sexual relationships.2017 | 328 pp. | 978-0-262-03668-9 | $40/£32.95
New Romantic CyborgsRomanticism, Information Technology, and the End of the MachineMark Coeckelbergh (De Montfort University)
An account of the complex relationship be-tween technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technol-ogy’s magic devices and romantic cyborgs.2017 | 336 pp. | 978-0-262-03546-0 | $50/£41.95
Rebel GeniusWarren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in ScienceTara H. Abraham (University of Guelph)
The life and work of a scientist who spent his career crossing disciplinary boundaries—from experimental neurology to psychiatry to cyber-netics to engineering.2016 | 320 pp. | 978-0-262-03509-5 | $40/£32.95
Embodiments of MindWarren S. McCulloch
Forewords by Michael A. Arbib (University of Southern California), Jerome Y. Lettvin, and Seymour A. Papert2016 | 488 pp. | 978-0-262-52961-7 | $45/£37.95
From Neuron to Cognition via Computational NeuroscienceEdited by Michael A. Arbib (University of Southern California) and James J. Bonaiuto (University College London)
A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neu-roscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition.2016 | 808 pp. | 978-0-262-03496-8 $115/£95.95 T Computational Neuroscience series
MATLAB for Brain and Cognitive ScientistsMike X. Cohen (University of Amsterdam)
An introduction to a popular program-ming language for neuroscience research, taking the reader from beginning to inter-mediate and advanced levels of MATLAB programming.2017 | 576 pp. | 978-0-262-03582-8 $50/£41.95 T
Case Studies in Neural Data AnalysisA Guide for the Practicing NeuroscientistMark A. Kramer (Boston University) and Uri T. Eden (Boston University)
A practical guide to neural data analysis techniques that presents sample datasets and hands-on methods for analyzing the data.2016 | 384 pp. | 978-0-262-52937-2 $60/£49.95 T Computational Neuroscience series
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Principles of Neural DesignPeter Sterling and Simon Laughlin (University of Cambridge)(Cloth 2015) | 568 pp. | 978-0-262-53468-0 $35/£27.95
The Cognitive Neurosciences 5th EditionEdited by Michael S. Gazzaniga and George R. Mangun (University of California, Davis)
The fifth edition of a work that defines the field of cognitive neuroscience, with entirely new material that reflects recent advances in the field. 2014 | 1128 pp. | 978-0-262-02777-9 | $200/£166.95
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The Human AdvantageHow Our Brains Became Remarkable
Suzana Herculano-Houzel (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)(Cloth 2016) | 270 pp. | 978-0-262-53353-9 $16.95/£14.95
NeuroplasticityMoheb Costandi
The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes—with or without “brain training.”2016 | 192 pp. | 978-0-262-52933-4 | $15.95/£11.95 The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
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NeuroscienceA Historical IntroductionMitchell Glickstein (University College London)(Cloth 2014) | 418 pp. | 978-0-262-53461-1 $45/£37.95 T
Machine LearningThe New AIEthem Alpaydin (Boğaziçi University)
A concise overview of machine learn-ing—computer programs that learn from data—which underlies applications that include recommendation systems, face recognition, and driverless cars.2016 | 224 pp. | 978-0-262-52951-8 | $15.95/£11.95 The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
The Deep Learning RevolutionTerrence J Sejnowski
How deep learning—from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants—is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy.May 2018 | 256 pp. | 978-0-262-03803-4 $27.95/ £22.95
Thinking as ComputationA First CourseHector J. Levesque (University of Toronto)(Cloth 2012) | 322 pp. | 978-0-262-53474-1 $30/£24.95 T
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Brain Computation as Hierarchical Abstraction Dana H. Ballard (University of Texas at Austin)(Cloth 2015) | 456 pp. | 978-0-262-53412-3 $46/£38.95 Computational Neuroscience series
Visual Cortex and Deep NetworksLearning Invariant RepresentationsTomaso A. Poggio (Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology) and Fabio Anselmi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
A mathematical framework that describes learning of invariant representations in the ventral stream, offering both theoretical development and applications.2016 | 136 pp. | 978-0-262-03472-2 | $32/£26.95 Computational Neuroscience series
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The Moral BrainA Multidisciplinary PerspectiveEdited by Jean Decety (University of Chicago) and Thalia Wheatley (Dartmouth College)(Cloth 2015) | 338 pp. | 978-0-262-53458-1 $25/£19.95
Getting ThroughThe Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural CommunicationRoger Kreuz (University of Memphis) and Richard Roberts
Understanding how culture affects the ways we communicate—how we tell jokes, greet, ask questions, hedge, apologize, compliment, and so much more.2017 | 304 pp. | 978-0-262-03631-3 | $27.95/£22.95
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Becoming FluentHow Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign LanguageRichard M. Roberts and Roger J. Kreuz (Univer-sity of Memphis)(Cloth 2015) | 248 pp. | 978-0-262-52980-8 $17.95/£14.95
Invisible MindFlexible Social Cognition and DehumanizationLasana T. Harris (University College London)
An interdisciplinary view of the evolution and consequences of flexible social cognition—the capacity to withhold the inference of mental states to other people.2017 | 240 pp. | 978-0-262-03596-5 | $40/£32.95
Cognitive PluralismSteven Horst (Wesleyan University)
An argument that we understand the world through many special-purpose mental models of different content domains, and an exploration of the philosophical implications.2016 | 376 pp. | 978-0-262-03423-4 | $54/£44.95
The Cultural Nature of AttachmentContextualizing Relationships and DevelopmentEdited by Heidi Keller (University of Osnabrück) and Kim A. Bard (University of Portsmouth)
Multidisciplinary perspectives on the cultural and evolutionary foundations of children’s at-tachment relationships and on the consequenc-es for education, counseling, and policy.2017 | 448 pp. | 978-0-262-03690-0 | $45/£37.95 Strüngmann Forum Reports
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The Rationality QuotientToward a Test of Rational ThinkingKeith E. Stanovich, University of Toronto; Richard F. West, James Madison University and Maggie E. Toplak, York University
How to assess critical aspects of cognitive functioning that are not measured by IQ tests: rational thinking skills.(Cloth 2016) | 240 pp. | 978-0-262-53527-4 $30/£24.95
The Targeting System of LanguageLeonard Talmy
A proposal that a single linguistic/cognitive system, “targeting,” underlies two domains of reference, anaphora (speech-internal) and deixis (speech-external).2017 | 672 pp. | 978-0-262-03697-9 | $50/£41.95
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The Geometry of MeaningSemantics Based on Conceptual SpacesPeter Gärdenfors (Lund University)(Cloth 2014) | 356 pp. | 978-0-262-53375-1 $25/£19.95
Five Constraints on Predicting BehaviorJerome Kagan (Harvard University)
A distinguished psychologist considers five conditions that constrain inferences about the relation between brain activity and psychologi-cal processes.2017 | 256 pp. | 978-0-262-03652-8 | $30/£24.95
Language in Our BrainThe Origins of a Uniquely Human CapacityAngela D. Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)
foreword by Noam Chomsky
A comprehensive account of the neurobiologi-cal basis of language, arguing that species-specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language.2017 | 304 pp. | 978-0-262-03692-4 | $45/£37.95
The Price of Linguistic Productivity How Children Learn to Break the Rules of LanguageCharles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages.2016 | 280 pp. | 978-0-262-03532-3 | $45/£37.95
Computational Models of ReferringA Study in Cognitive ScienceKees van Deemter (University of Aberdeen)
An argument that computational models can shed light on referring, a fundamental and much-studied aspect of communication.2016 | 350 pp. | 978-0-262-03455-5 | $34/£27.95
Neural Control of SpeechFrank H. Guenther (Boston University)
A comprehensive and unified account of the neural computations underlying speech produc-tion, offering a theoretical framework bridging the behavioral and the neurological literatures.2016 | 424 pp. | 978-0-262-03471-5 | $63/£52.95
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Creating LanguageIntegrating Evolution, Acquisition, and ProcessingMorten H. Christiansen (Cornell University) and Nick Chater (The University of Warwick)
foreword by Peter W. Culicover
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.(Cloth 2016) | 344 pp. | 978-0-262-53511-3 $30/£24.95
Impossible LanguagesAndrea Moro (Palazzo Broletto IUSS)
An investigation into the possibility of impos-sible languages, searching for the indelible “fingerprint” of human language.2016 | 160 pp. | 978-0-262-03489-0 | $21.95/£17.95
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Why Only UsLanguage and EvolutionRobert C. Berwick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Noam Chomsky (Massachu-setts Institute of Technology)(Cloth 2016) | 224 pp. | 978-0-262-53349-2 $15.95/£13.95
Philosophical Provocations55 Short EssaysColin McGinn
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ConsciousnessConfessions of a Romantic ReductionistChristof Koch (Allen Institute for Brain Science)
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Real HallucinationsPsychiatric Illness, Intentionality, and the Interpersonal WorldMatthew Ratcliffe (University of Vienna)
A philosophical account of the structure of ex-perience and how it depends on interpersonal relations, developed through a study of auditory verbal hallucinations and thought insertion.2017 | 304 pp. | 978-0-262-03671-9 | $40/£32.95Philosophical Psychopathology
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Elements of Ethics for Physical ScientistsSandra C. Greer (University of Maryland)
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