Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

12 essays by international experts look at how cognition is explicitly or implicitly conceived of as distributed across brain, body and world in Greek and Roman technology, science, medicine, material culture, philosophy and literary studies. A range of models emerge, which vary both in terms of whether cognition is just embodied or involves tools or objects in the world. As many of the texts and practices discussed have influenced Western European society and culture, this collection reveals the historical foundations of our theoretical and practical attempts to comprehend the distributed nature of human cognition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474429771
• Artikelnr.: 55438972

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.