Distributed cognition in classical antiquity / edited by Miranda Anderson, Douglas Cairns and Mark Sprevak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Miranda, Author.

Contributor:

Anderson, Miranda, editor.

Cairns, Douglas L., editor.

Sprevak, Mark, 1977- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh history of distributed cognition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Distributed cognition--History.

Distributed cognition.

Civilization, Classical--Psychological aspects.

Civilization, Classical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Summary:

12 essays by international specialists in classical antiquity create a period-specific interdisciplinary introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities. The first book in an ambitious 4-volume set looking at distributed cognition in the history of thought. This collection explores 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

4. Distributed Cognition and the Diffusion of Information Technologies 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 Dēmos 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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Nov 2019).

ISBN:

1-4744-2977-7

1-4744-2976-9

OCLC:

1312726435