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Title Distributed cognition in classical antiquity / edited by Miranda Anderson, Douglas Cairns, Mark Sprevak
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

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Series The Edinburgh history of distributed cognition
Edinburgh history of distributed 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 DÄ“mos 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
Summary 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. Key Features: The first book in an ambitious four-volume set looking at distributed cognition in the history of thought. Includes essays on archaeology, art history, rhetoric, literature, philosophy, science, medicine and technology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, Oct. 18, 2018)
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Subject Distributed cognition -- Greece
Distributed cognition -- Rome
Classical antiquities -- Psychological aspects
Distributed cognition.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
HISTORY / Ancient / General
Distributed cognition
Rome (Empire)
Greece
Form Electronic book
Author Anderson, Miranda, editor.
Cairns, Douglas, editor.
Sprevak, Mark, 1977- editor.
ISBN 9781474429764
1474429769