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

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 archaeol...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition : EHDC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations 4 colour illustrations
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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