Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity

Herausgeber: Anderson, Miranda; Sprevak, Mark; Cairns, Douglas

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together twelve essays by international specialists in classical antiquity to create a period-specific interdisciplinary survey of distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities. The essays look at the ways in which cognition is explicitly or implicitly conceived of as distributed across brain, body and world in Greek and Roman technology, science and medicine, material culture, philosophy and literary studies. This exploratory work will be valuable across the humanities as it reveals the historical foundations of our theoretical and practical attempts to comprehend and optimise the distributed nature of human cognition. Miranda Anderson is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. Mark Sprevak is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 185mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781474429740
• ISBN-10: 1474429742
• Artikelnr.: 52713660

Autorenporträt

Miranda Anderson is an Anniversary Fellow at the University of Stirling and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on cognitive approaches to literature and culture. She is the author of The Renaissance Extended Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on Greek literature, society and thought, especially the emotions. He is the author of Sophocles: Antigone (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (Francis Cairns, 2010), and Aidôs: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (OUP, 1993). Mark Sprevak is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook to the Computational Mind (Routledge, 2018), The Turing Guide: Life, Work, Legacy (OUP, 2017) and New Waves in Philosophy of Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; Series Preface; 1. Series Introduction: Distributed
Cognition and the Humanities, Miranda Anderson, Michael Wheeler and Mark
Sprevak; 2. Introduction: Distributed Cognition and the Classics, Douglas
Cairns; 3. Physical Sciences: Ptolemy's Extended Mind, Courtney Roby; 4.
Distributed Cognition and the Diffusion of Information Technologies in the
Roman World, Andrew Riggsby; 5. Mask as Mind Tool: A Methodology of
Material Engagement, Peter Meineck; 6. Embodied, Extended and Distributed
Cognition in Roman Technical Practice, William Short; 7. Roman-period
Theatres as Distributed Cognitive Micro-ecologies, Diana Y. Ng; 8.
Cognition, Emotions and the Feeling Body in the Hippocratic Corpus, George
Kazantidis; 9. Enactivism and Embodied Cognition in Stoicism and Plato's
Timaeus, Christopher Gill; 10. Enargeia, Enactivism and the Ancient
Readerly Imagination, Luuk Huitink; 11. Group Minds in Classical Athens?
Chorus and Demos as Case Studies of Collective Cognition, Felix Budelmann;
12. One Soul in Two Bodies: Distributed Cognition and Ancient Greek
Friendship, David Konstan; 13. Distributed Cognition and Its Discontents:
Three Episodes from the Classical Tradition, Thomas Habinek and Hector
Reyes; Notes on Contributors.