Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity

Miranda Anderson, Douglas Cairns, Mark Sprevak (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2974-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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 (FRSE, FBA, MAE) is Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Aidôs: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (1993), Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (2010) and Sophocles: Antigone (2016). His most recent edited volumes include A Cultural History of the Emotions in Antiquity (2019), Emotions through Time: From Antiquity to Byzantium (with M. Hinterberger, A. Pizzone and M. Zaccarini, 2022), Contempt, Ancient and Modern (2023), and In the Mind, in the Body, in the World: Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece (with C. Virág, 2024). 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).

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Series Preface

1.Series Introduction: Distributed Cognition and the HumanitiesMiranda Anderson, Michael Wheeler and Mark Sprevak

2. Introduction: Distributed Cognition and the ClassicsDouglas Cairns

3. Physical Sciences: Ptolemy’s Extended MindCourtney Roby

4. Distributed Cognition and the Diffusion of Information Technologies in the Roman WorldAndrew Riggsby

5. Mask as Mind Tool: A Methodology of Material EngagementPeter Meineck

6. Embodied, Extended and Distributed Cognition in Roman Technical PracticeWilliam Short

7. Roman-period Theatres as Distributed Cognitive Micro-ecologiesDiana Y. Ng

8. Cognition, Emotions and the Feeling Body in the Hippocratic CorpusGeorge Kazantidis

9. Enactivism and Embodied Cognition in Stoicism and Plato’s TimaeusChristopher Gill

10. Enargeia, Enactivism and the Ancient Readerly ImaginationLuuk Huitink

11. Group Minds in Classical Athens? Chorus and Dēmos as Case Studies of Collective CognitionFelix Budelmann

12. One Soul in Two Bodies: Distributed Cognition and Ancient Greek FriendshipDavid Konstan

13. Distributed Cognition and Its Discontents: Three Episodes from the Classical TraditionThomas Habinek and Hector Reyes

Erscheinungsdatum	10.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition
Zusatzinfo	2 black and white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-4744-2974-2 / 1474429742
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-2974-0 / 9781474429740
Zustand	Neuware