Concept
MIT Press
Overview
The MIT Press is the university press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The MIT Press publishes more than 300 books and over 40 academic journals each year, and pioneers open access models in academic publishing.
The MIT Press primarily publishes academic and general interest titles, including textbooks, across fields spanning art and design, architecture, business, cognitive science, computer science, technology, and more.
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But for books commanding a remunerative sale, if they are of a suitable kind, the Press is prepared to pay the full market value; and it is believed that not many of its authors are dissatisfied with the bargains they have made. ‘It is an immense advantage to an author to be printed by a famous Press’, is the opinion of a veteran of letters, whose name appears in many publishers’ catalogues.
Oxford University Press, Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
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Comprising two hundred and fifty titles of standard works, embracing fiction, essays, poetry, history, travel, etc., selected from the world's best literature, written by authors of world-wide reputation. Printed from large type, on good paper, and bound in handsome cloth binding, uniform with this volume, Price, 75 cents per copy. =Adam Bede.= By George Eliot. =Æsop's Fables.= =Alhambra, The.= By Washington Irving.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship and travels, vol. 1
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Examples of this are to be found in nearly all schools to-day which aim to be progressive. Many school systems all over the country have tried having a printing press operated by pupils with great success. The presses were installed not to teach the pupils the different processes in the trade, but so that the children might themselves print some of the pamphlets, posters, or other papers that any school is…
John Dewey, Schools of to-morrow
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Philosophers who discussed MIT Press
- Yale University Press
- Nuel Belnap
- Julian Huxley
- Marshall McLuhan
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Walter Benjamin
- George Herbert Mead
- Bruno Latour
- Martin Heidegger
- Paul Thagard
- Jerry Fodor
- Richard Boyd
- Paul Churchland
- Ernst Bloch
- Xunzi (philosopher)
- Karl Löwith
- Hilary Putnam
- Daniel Dennett
- Hannah Arendt
- Hao Wang (academic)
- Alva Noë
- Zenon Pylyshyn
- Aeon (magazine)
- Stephen Neale
Related ideas
- Eleanor Rosch
- Herbert A. Simon
- Slavoj Žižek
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Nobel Prize
- Noam Chomsky
- Paul Samuelson
- Word and Object
- Evan Thompson
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Kenneth Arrow
- Computer science
- Paul Churchland
- Wiley (publisher)
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Max Born
- Museum of Modern Art
- Francisco Varela
- Daniel Dennett
- Lev Vygotsky
- Robert Venturi
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.