Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity
1st Edition
Published on 12. October 2018
304 pages
978-1-4744-2977-1 (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.
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Miranda Anderson | Douglas Cairns | Mark Sprevak
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Content
- Intro
- Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Series Preface
- 1 Distributed Cognition and the Humanities
- 2 Distributed Cognition and the Classics
- 3 Physical Sciences : Ptolemy's Extended Mind
- 4Distributed Cognition and the Diffusion of Information Technolologies in the Roman World
- 5 Mask as Mind Tool : A Methodology of Material Engagement
- 6 Embodied, Extended and Distributed Cognition in Roman Technical Practice
- 7 Roman-period Theatres as Distributed Cognitive Micro-ecologies
- 8 Cognition, Emotions and the Feeling Body in the Hippocratic Corpus
- 9 Enactivism and Embodied Cognition in Stoicism and Plato's Timaeus
- 10 Enargeia, Enactivism and the Ancient Readerly Imagination
- 11 Group Minds in Classical Athens? Chorus and demos as Case Studies of Collective Cognition
- 12 One Soul in Two Bodies : Distributed Cognition and Ancient Greek Friendship
- 13 Distributed Cognition and its Discontents : A Dialogue across History and Artistic Genre
- Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
