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The Great Easter
Ambulation
ISBN: 9780262047081
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
A hallucinating, insomniac, and increasingly fragile flaneur wanders the streets of Paris over the long Easter weekend of 1960.
Beyond Heaven and Earth
A Cognitive Theory of Religion
ISBN: 9780262543248
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 1, 2022
An approach to understanding religion that draws on both humanities and natural science but rejects approaches that employ simple monisms and radical dualisms.
The Question Concerning Technology in China
The Question Concerning Technology in China
An Essay in Cosmotechnics
ISBN: 9780995455009
Publisher: Urbanomic
Pub Date: September 2, 2016
A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics.
Against Facts
ISBN: 9780262029216
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 10, 2015
An argument that the major metaphysical theories of facts give us no good reason to accept facts in our catalog of the world.
Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter
Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter
ISBN: 9780262019514
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 6, 2013
A groundbreaking conception of interactive media, inspired by continuity, field, and process, with fresh implications for art, computer science, and philosophy of technology.
The Number and the Siren
ISBN: 9780983216926
Publisher: Urbanomic/Sequence Press
Pub Date: April 6, 2012
A philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé's poem “Un Coup de Dés.”
Carving Nature at Its Joints
Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science
ISBN: 9780262516266
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 28, 2011
Reflections on the metaphysics and epistemology of classification from a distinguished group of philosophers.
Austere Realism
Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology
ISBN: 9780262513333
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 21, 2009
A provocative ontological-cum-semantic position asserting that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.
Onflow
Dynamics of Consciousness and Experience
ISBN: 9780262162272
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2005
Understanding consciousness by taking the stream of consciousness seriously; a general characterization of experience and a detailed description of experience from within, drawing on theories of William James, Alfred North Whitehead, John Searle, and Gerald Edelman.
The Great Easter
Ambulation
ISBN: 9780262047081
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
A hallucinating, insomniac, and increasingly fragile flaneur wanders the streets of Paris over the long Easter weekend of 1960.
Beyond Heaven and Earth
A Cognitive Theory of Religion
ISBN: 9780262543248
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 1, 2022
An approach to understanding religion that draws on both humanities and natural science but rejects approaches that employ simple monisms and radical dualisms.
The Question Concerning Technology in China
The Question Concerning Technology in China
An Essay in Cosmotechnics
ISBN: 9780995455009
Publisher: Urbanomic
Pub Date: September 2, 2016
A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics.
Against Facts
ISBN: 9780262029216
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 10, 2015
An argument that the major metaphysical theories of facts give us no good reason to accept facts in our catalog of the world.
Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter
Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter
ISBN: 9780262019514
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 6, 2013
A groundbreaking conception of interactive media, inspired by continuity, field, and process, with fresh implications for art, computer science, and philosophy of technology.
The Number and the Siren
ISBN: 9780983216926
Publisher: Urbanomic/Sequence Press
Pub Date: April 6, 2012
A philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé's poem “Un Coup de Dés.”
Carving Nature at Its Joints
Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science
ISBN: 9780262516266
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 28, 2011
Reflections on the metaphysics and epistemology of classification from a distinguished group of philosophers.
Austere Realism
Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology
ISBN: 9780262513333
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 21, 2009
A provocative ontological-cum-semantic position asserting that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.
Onflow
Dynamics of Consciousness and Experience
ISBN: 9780262162272
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2005
Understanding consciousness by taking the stream of consciousness seriously; a general characterization of experience and a detailed description of experience from within, drawing on theories of William James, Alfred North Whitehead, John Searle, and Gerald Edelman.