Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity

by Anderson, Miranda; Cairns, Douglas; Sprevak, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781474429740
• ISBN10: 1474429742
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-12-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Miranda Anderson is Research Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on cognitive approaches to literature and culture. She is the author of The Extended Renaissance Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and editor of The Book of the Mirror: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays on the Cultural Story of the Mirror (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).

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. His research focuses on distributed cognition and computational models of the mind. 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).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Series Preface

1. Distributed Cognition and the Humanities
Miranda Anderson, Michael Wheeler and Mark Sprevak

2. 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 M. Riggsby

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

6. Embodied, Extended and Distributed Cognition in Roman Technical Practice
William Michael 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 Kazantzidis

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: A Dialogue across History and Artistic Genre
Thomas Habinek and Hector Reyes

Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index