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A new empiricist theory of concepts that draws on research from philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology.

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The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works--how it turns "matter into imagination." In "Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, " psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of computation, his view is that the construction of meaning is not...

A reconsideration of Chris Marker's famous film, examining its treatment of time, its use of sound, the influence of the comic book form, and other topics.

Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. Such is the point of view from which a noted philosopher and logician examines the notion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. In the course of the discussion, Professor Quine pinpoints the difficulties involved in translation, brings to light the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our language's "referentia...

Reports on a new generation of Internet controls that establish a new normative terrain in which surveillance and censorship are routine.

According to a 2006 survey, 58 percent of young people aged 15 to 25 were civically "disengaged, " meaning that they participated in fewer than two types of either electoral activities or civic activities. The authors are interested in what role video games may or may not play in this disengagement.

A comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labor market outcomes concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.