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- MIT Press, 2016
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PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-178-8
EAN 9781584351788
"One day, I was not famous, the next day, I was almost famous and the temptation to go wide with that and reject my past was too great. When I was legit famous, it was hard to tell when the change had occurred...If I had been born famous, the moment I would have started engaging ...
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- MIT Press, 2016
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PVP: 36,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02939-1
EAN 9780262029391
In this book, Colin McGinn presents a concise, clear, and compelling argument that the origins of knowledge are innate -- that nativism, not empiricism, is correct in its theory of how concepts are acquired. McGinn considers the particular case of sensible qualities -- ideas of color, shape, taste, and so on. He argues that these, ...
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- MIT Press, 2015
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PVP: 22,15 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-170-2
EAN 9781584351702
Franco "Bifo" Berardi's newest book analyzes the contemporary changes taking place in our aesthetic and emotional sensibility -- changes the author claims are the result of semio-capitalism's capturing of the inner resources of the subjective process: our experience of time, our sensibility, the way we relate to each other, and our ability to imagine a ...
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- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52851-1
EAN 9780262528511
When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone calls -- information about the caller, the recipient, the time, the ...
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Bamberger, Kenneth A; Mulligan, Deirdre K
Privacy on the Ground
Driving Corporate Behavior in the United States and Europe
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 43,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02998-8
EAN 9780262029988
Barely a week goes by without a new privacy revelation or scandal. Whether by hackers or spy agencies or social networks, violations of our personal information have shaken entire industries, corroded relations among nations, and bred distrust between democratic governments and their citizens. Polls reflect this concern, and show majorities for more, broader, and stricter ...
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- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02932-2
EAN 9780262029322
"McGinn is an ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and writes like a dream."--Steven Pinker This book is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that we take for granted: the importance of the hand in everything we do. Drawing on evolutionary ...
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Control
Digitality as Cultural Logic
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 40,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02953-7
EAN 9780262029537
Is there a cultural logic of what we have come to call the information age? Have the technologies and techniques centered on the computer provided not only tools but also the metaphors through which we now understand the social and economic formation of our world? In Control, Seb Franklin addresses the conditions of knowledge that ...
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Hawkins, Gay; Potter, Emily; Race, Kane
Plastic Water
The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02941-4
EAN 9780262029414
How did branded bottles of water insinuate themselves into our daily lives? Why did water become an economic good -- no longer a common resource but a commercial product, in industry parlance a "fast moving consumer good," or FMCG? Plastic Water examines the processes behind this transformation. It goes beyond the usual political and environmental ...
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Borroni-Bird, Christopher E; Burns, Lawrence D; Mitchell, William J
Reinventing the Automobile
Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 26,05 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52845-0
EAN 9780262528450
This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They are inefficient for providing ...
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In 100 Years
Leading Economists predict the Future
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 21,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52834-4
EAN 9780262528344
This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers. Economists' ideas, based on both theory and practice, reflect their knowledge of the laws of human interactions as well as years of experimentation and reflection. Although perhaps not as screenplay-ready as a work of fiction, ...
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Elbow Room
The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52779-8
EAN 9780262527798
In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments." In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of ...
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- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52780-4
EAN 9780262527804
The idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence. The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity"-that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both-has moved from the realm of science fiction to ...
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Why are we Waiting?
The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 33,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02918-6
EAN 9780262029186
The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development, reduced emissions, and creative adaptation go hand in hand. A committed and strong low-carbon transition could trigger a new wave of economic and technological transformation and investment, a new era of global and ...
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Thinking Things Through
An Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievements
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 472 páginas
PVP: 50,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52720-0
EAN 9780262527200
Thinking Things Through offers a broad, historical, and rigorous introduction to the logical tradition in philosophy and its contemporary significance. It is unique among introductory philosophy texts in that it considers both the historical development and modern fruition of a few central questions. It traces the influence of philosophical ideas and arguments on modern logic, ...
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The Container Principle
How a Box Changes the Way we Think
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02857-8
EAN 9780262028578
We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land; provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity; inspire films, novels, metaphors, and paradigms. Today, TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit, the official measurement for shipping containers) has become something like a global currency. ...
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- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 18,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52773-6
EAN 9780262527736
We turn on the lights in our house from a desk in an office miles away. Our refrigerator alerts us to buy milk on the way home. A package of cookies on the supermarket shelf suggests that we buy it, based on past purchases. The cookies themselves are on the shelf because of a smart ...
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Philosophy of Language
The Classics Explained
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 42,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02845-5
EAN 9780262028455
Many beginning students in philosophy of language find themselves grappling with dense and difficult texts not easily understood by someone new to the field. This book offers an introduction to philosophy of language by explaining ten classic, often anthologized, texts. Accessible and thorough, written with a unique combination of informality and careful formulation, the book ...
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Computability
Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond
- MIT Press, 2015
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PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52748-4
EAN 9780262527484
In the 1930s a series of seminal works published by Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel, Alonzo Church, and others established the theoretical basis for computability. This work, advancing precise characterizations of effective, algorithmic computability, was the culmination of intensive investigations into the foundations of mathematics. In the decades since, the theory of computability has moved to ...
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- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 46,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02881-3
EAN 9780262028813
Maps of physical spaces locate us in the world and help us navigate unfamiliar routes. Maps of topical spaces help us visualize the extent and structure of our collective knowledge; they reveal bursts of activity, pathways of ideas, and borders that beg to be crossed. This book, from the author of Atlas of Science, describes ...
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The Eternal Letter
Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 364 páginas
PVP: 63,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02901-8
EAN 9780262029018
The fiftieth anniversary of Helvetica, the most famous of all sans serif typefaces, was celebrated with an excitement unusual in the staid world of typography and culminated in the release of the first movie ever made starring a typeface. Yet Helvetica's fifty-year milestone pales in comparison with the two thousandth anniversary in 2014 of Trajan's ...
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