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        Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature

        Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature

        Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature

        Edited by Tyler Millhouse, Steve Petersen and Don Ross

        ISBN: 9780262052030

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 31, 2026

        How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.
        People Are STRANGE

        People Are STRANGE

        People Are STRANGE

        Material Engagement and the Creation of Self-Consciousness

        by Lambros Malafouris

        ISBN: 9780262553902

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 3, 2026

        A groundbreaking exploration of self-consciousness through material engagement theory, redefining what it means to be human in a constantly changing world.
        Degrees of Freedom

        Degrees of Freedom

        Degrees of Freedom

        On Robotics and Social Justice

        by Tom Williams

        ISBN: 9780262554022

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 9, 2025

        Why the field of robotics tends to reinforce white patriarchal systems of power—and how roboticists can work to change these systems.
        How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

        How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

        How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

        Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms

        by Gerd Gigerenzer

        ISBN: 9780262548441

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 23, 2025

        How to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to “turn right in 500 yards.”
        Born Knowing

        Born Knowing

        Born Knowing

        Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge

        by Dayton G. Vincent

        Illustrated by George J. Boer

        ISBN: 9780262548571

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 5, 2025

        An expert on the brain argues that the mind is not a blank slate and that much early behavior is biologically predisposed rather than learned.
        The Idealized Mind

        The Idealized Mind

        The Idealized Mind

        From Model-Based Science to Cognitive Science

        by Michael D. Kirchhoff

        ISBN: 9780262552936

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 5, 2025

        A defense of scientific realism based on the role of idealization in the cognitive sciences.
        Psychopathy Unmasked

        Psychopathy Unmasked

        Psychopathy Unmasked

        The Rise and Fall of a Dangerous Diagnosis

        by Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen

        ISBN: 9780262552202

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 17, 2025

        Why our fascination with psychopaths is scientifically wrongheaded, and how the criminal justice system has misused the controversial science of psychopathy.
        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.
        Principles of Biological Autonomy

        Principles of Biological Autonomy, a new annotated edition

        Principles of Biological Autonomy

        by Francisco J. Varela

        Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela

        Edited by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo and Evan Thompson

        ISBN: 9780262551403

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 13, 2025

        A new, updated edition of the 1979 classic from one of the foremost authors in cognitive science and theoretical biology, with the original text as well as more than 200 citations to current scientific developments.
        The Invisible Hand

        The Invisible Hand

        The Invisible Hand

        Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Human Hand Function

        by Matthew R. Longo

        ISBN: 9780262551878

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 15, 2025

        How the “invisible hand” of the nervous system makes the human hand such an evolutionary success.
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