Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity

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.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Miranda Anderson, Miranda (Anniversary Fellow and an Honor Anderson, Miranda Cairns Anderson
• Assisted by: Miranda Anderson (Editor), Miranda (Anniversary Fellow and an Honorary Fellow Anderson (Editor), Douglas Cairns (Editor), Douglas (Professor of Classics Cairns (Editor), Mark Sprevak (Editor), Mark (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Sprevak (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781474429740
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-2974-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Edinburgh History of Distribut; The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition; The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition; Edinburgh History of Distribut
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works