Miranda (Hrsg.) Anderson

Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity

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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 cogniti… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Cairns, Douglas (Hrsg.) / Sprevak, Mark (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-4744-2974-0
EAN: 9781474429740
Produktnummer: 27457993
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 312 S.
Masse: H18.0 cm x B25.2 cm x D2.0 cm 712 g
Abbildungen: 64 B/W illustrations 16 colour illustrations
Gewicht: 712
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

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).