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        Epistemic Ecology

        Epistemic Ecology

        Epistemic Ecology

        by Catherine Z. Elgin

        ISBN: 9780262551717

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 20, 2025

        An ecological epistemology arguing that epistemic agents, communities, and environments adapt to one another to generate evolving understandings of the world.
        A Drive to Survive

        A Drive to Survive

        A Drive to Survive

        The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life

        by Kathryn Nave

        ISBN: 9780262551328

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 4, 2025

        How the purposive behavior of living systems outstrips the constraints of the free energy principle.
        The Emperor’s New Nudity

        The Emperor's New Nudity

        The Emperor's New Nudity

        The Return of Authoritarianism and the Digital Obscene

        by Yuval Kremnitzer

        ISBN: 9780262549042

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 10, 2024

        An analysis of contemporary authoritarianism and the medium in which it flourishes, the internet, as well as what lies at the complex intersection of authority and technology.
        Stinking Philosophy!

        Stinking Philosophy!

        Stinking Philosophy!

        Smell Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness

        by Benjamin Young

        ISBN: 9780262548885

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 6, 2024

        The nature of olfaction; its importance for understanding perennial issues of philosophy of mind, perception, and consciousness; and its implications for cognitive neuroscience.
        What’s That Smell?

        What’s That Smell?

        What’s That Smell?

        A Philosophy of the Olfactory

        by Simon Hajdini

        ISBN: 9780262547567

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 5, 2024

        How our sense of smell engages with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political economy—and how it can help enrich our understanding of the nature of truth, language, economy, and sexuality.
        The Brain Abstracted

        The Brain Abstracted

        The Brain Abstracted

        Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience

        by M. Chirimuuta

        ISBN: 9780262548045

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 5, 2024

        An exciting, new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.
        Dispositif

        Dispositif

        Dispositif

        A Cartography

        Edited by Greg Bird and Giovanbattista Tusa

        ISBN: 9780262544337

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 5, 2023

        A groundbreaking anthology that places dispositifs (“apparatuses”) at the center of contemporary thought.
        Pleromatica, or Elsinore’s Trance

        Pleromatica, or Elsinore’s Trance

        Pleromatica, or Elsinore’s Trance

        by Gabriel Catren

        Translated by Thomas Murphy

        ISBN: 9781733628143

        Publisher: Urbanomic/Sequence Press

        Pub Date: August 29, 2023

        A precise and poetic argument for the renewal of transcendental philosophy.
        Winds of Doctrine

        Winds of Doctrine, critical edition

        Winds of Doctrine

        Studies in Contemporary Opinion

        by George Santayana

        Edited by David E Spiech, Martin A. Coleman and Faedra Lazar Weiss

        Introduction by Paul Forster

        ISBN: 9780262048675

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 1, 2023

        A critical edition of a classic work by the renowned philosopher George Santayana evaluating key movements in American intellectual history.
        The Phoenix Complex

        The Phoenix Complex

        The Phoenix Complex

        A Philosophy of Nature

        by Michael Marder

        ISBN: 9780262545709

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 4, 2023

        An innovative, wide-ranging consideration of the global ecological crisis and its deep philosophical and theological roots.
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