Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity / / Mark Sprevak, Miranda Anderson, Douglas Cairns.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Anderson, Miranda,; Cairns, Douglas,; Sprevak, Mark,
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Miranda,; Budelmann, Felix,; Cairns, Douglas,; Gill, Christopher,; Habinek, Thomas,; Huitink, Luuk,; Kazantzidis, George,; Konstan, David,; Meineck, Peter,; Ng, Diana Y.,; Reyes, Hector,; Riggsby, Andrew M.,; Roby, Courtney,; Short, William Michael,; Sprevak, Mark,; Wheeler, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition : EHDC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations 4 colour illustrations

12 essays by international specialists in classical antiquity create a period-specific interdisciplinary introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanitiesThe first book in an ambitious 4-volume set looking at distributed cognition in the history of thoughtIncludes essays on archaeology, art history, rhetoric, literature, philosophy, science, medicine and technologyFor students and scholars in classics, cognitive humanities, philosophy of mind and ancient philosophyIncludes essays by international specialists in classics, ancient history and archaeologyThis 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. ContributorsMiranda Anderson, University of Edinburgh, UK.Felix Budelmann, University of Oxford, UK.Douglas Cairns, University of Edinburgh, UK.Christopher Gill, University of Exeter, UK.Thomas Habinek, University of Southern California, USA.Luuk Huitink, Heidelberg University, Germany.George Kazantzidis, University of Patras, Greece.David Konstan, New York University, USA.Peter Meineck, New York University, USA.Diana Y. Ng, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA.Hector Reyes, University of Southern California, USA.Andrew M. Riggsby, University of Texas at Austin, USA.Courtney Roby, Cornell University, USA.William Michael Short, University of Exeter, UK.Mark Sprevak, University of Edinburgh, UK.Michael Wheeler, University of Stirling, UK."

Table of 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