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Wishing our followers a safe and happy Halloween! We'll be revisiting a classic with our annotated edition of "Frankenstein." Available in paperback and #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/97802625332…
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"A gentle, donnish erudition to the study of aesthetics ... It’s a splendid collision of philosophy with biological and cognitive science."
A review of Nicholas Humphrey's "Why Is the World So Beautiful" in @ConversationEDU. theconversation.com/why-do-w…
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📚 Open Access (free)
Rayo, A. (2019). On the Brink of Paradox: Highlights from the Intersection of Philosophy and Mathematics. MIT Press. doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/108…
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A new lecture is available.
Lectures on Infinity—lecture 7
What is Infinity?
infinitelymore.xyz/p/what-is… #InfinitelyMore #BookOfInfinity
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"We don’t like disorder and chaos. The philosopher David Hume said, 'Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye.' On the whole, we try to avoid situations where we’re confronted with things we can’t make sense of." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/b…
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"Beauty is more than just a cognitive event in our minds. Beauty moves us in ways which seem to imply there’s something more to it."
Nicholas Humphrey discussed his new book, "Why Is the World So Beautiful?," with @NautilusMag: nautil.us/what-makes-life-be…
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Kirchhoff, M. D. (2025). The Idealized Mind: From Model-Based Science to Cognitive Science. MIT Press. doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/158…
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Mallot, H. A. (2024). From Geometry to Behavior: An Introduction to Spatial Cognition. MIT Press. doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/962…
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Hohwy, J. (2026). The Self-Evidencing Agent: Mind, Existence, and Predictive Processing. MIT Press. doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/159…
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Kockelman, P. (2025). Mathematical Models of Meaning: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Possible World Semiotics. MIT Press. doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/156…
Philip Laughlin retweeted
mitpress.mit.edu/97802625529… this one came out last year. It's mainly philosophy of cognitive science, whereas the new one is much more rigorously engaged with computational methods on neuroscience. But I suspect you'll find it useful.
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Author copies of 'The Idealized Brain: Uniting Philosophy of Science and Computational Neuroscience' (MIT) have arrived. Exciting! Stay tuned for its official open access release on 15 December 2026. For more information about the book, see mitpress.mit.edu/97802620549…
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Wonderful time at the FENS Brain Conference in Crete. Lots of great talks and fun conversations. Here with @davidpoeppel
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Wordbank, my lab's open database of children's vocabulary development, has a new home. There's a new website, a new data release, and wordbankr is back on CRAN. A few details 🧵 wordbank.stanford.edu/
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"Rhyme is in the DNA of the world we live in."
An interview with "Why Is the World So Beautiful?" author Nicholas Humphrey on Instant Genius @sciencefocus: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
ALT Image of a man admiring a painting next to the tagline "Why humans are wired to appreciate beauty".
Philip Laughlin retweeted
AIs won't send us extinct unless we want them to
abc.net.au/religion/nicholas…
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New this week from the MIT Press. Happy publication day to our authors! 📖
ALT Nine book covers on a blue background: "Fighting Fires and Building Flywheels," "The Spaceflight Narrative," "How We Govern Our Minds Through Others," "This Is Why We Love LEGO," "The Quantum Stock Market," "Morbid," "In Referees We Trust?," "Goodthink," and "Play Like A Fangirl."
Philip Laughlin retweeted
𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀
Excellent book on relational aspects of knowledge and world. Inspired by physics but providing a general process + perspectival framework.
Quite convergent with The Blind Spot by Frank, Gleiser, and Thompson.
Philip Laughlin retweeted
A review of my @mitpress book Artificial Religion: link.springer.com/article/10…
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New @mitpress book from Tomasello coming out soon:
mitpress.mit.edu/97802620580…
