Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity

by: Anderson, M. Cairns, D. Sprevak, M.

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
Includes essays on archaeology, art history, rhetoric, literature, philosophy, science, medicine and technology
For students and scholars in classics, cognitive humanities, philosophy of mind and ancient philosophy
Includes essays by international specialists in classics, ancient history and archaeology
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.

Contributors
Miranda 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.

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

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 Dēmos 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

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.

Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity

by: Anderson, M. Cairns, D. Sprevak, M.

• ISBN-13: 9781474429740 / 978-1-4744-2974-0
• ISBN-03: 1474429742 / 1-4744-2974-2
• Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2019