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Ruth Millikan argues that the intentionality of language can be described without reference to speaker intentions and that an understanding of the intentionality of thought can and should be divorced from the problem of understanding consciousness.

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The first English translation of a classic work in vision science from 1936 by a leading figure in the Gestalt movement, covering topics that continue to be major issues in vision research today.

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How environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a proposal for navigating between naive naturalism and technological arrogance.

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Experiments in innovation, design, and democracy that search not for a killer app but for a collaboratively created sustainable future.

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The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.

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A comprehensive analysis of medical malpractice from legal, medical, economic, and insurance perspectives that considers why past efforts at reform have not worked and offers recommendations for realistic, achievable policy changes.

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Philosophical reflections on creativity in science, humanities, and human experience as a whole.

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The second volume of a commonsense, self-contained introduction to the mathematics and physics of music, focusing on the digital and computational domain; essential reading for musicians, music engineers, and anyone interested in the intersection of art and science.

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An argument that the way we listen to speech is shaped by our experience with our native language.

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In this broad-ranging view of architecture and urbanism across cultural boundaries, the author evaluates the connections between the natural and man-made in our towns and cities, farms and gardens, architecture and works of civil engineering.

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An integrative overview of network approaches to neuroscience explores the origins of brain complexity and the link between brain structure and function.

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An introduction to the structure and function of the nervous system that emphasizes the history of experiments and observations that led to modern neuroscientific knowledge.

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How cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.

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Close readings of ostensibly blank worksfrom unprinted pages to silent musicthat point to a new understanding of media.

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This biography describes the intellectual and political milieus that helped shape Noam Chomsky. It highlights Chomsky's views on the uses and misuses of the university as an institution, his assessment of useful political engagement, and his doubts about postmodernism.

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An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts.

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Real and imagined undergrounds in the late nineteenth century viewed as offering a prophetic look at life in today's technology-dominated world.

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Xavier Vives applies a modern game-theoretic approach to develop a theory of oligopoly pricing.

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Experts discuss the potential for open education tools, resources, and knowledge to transform the economics and ecology of education.

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Variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropraite urban life.

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An integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of color that offers a novel theory of the metaphysics of color.

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The first systematic study of parallelism in computation by two pioneers in the field.

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How mobile communications in Japan became a pervasively personal tool that connects families and friends, creating "always-on" social engagement.