Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition)

ISBN 10: 147443813X / ISBN 13: 9781474438131

Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147443813X
• ISBN 13: 9781474438131
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This collection brings together 14 essays by international specialists in Medieval and Renaissance culture and provides a general and a period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities. The essays bring recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on how cognition is seen as distributed across brain, body and world. The volume includes essays on law, history, drama, literature, art, music, philosophy, science and medicine, covering topics such as the mind, life and soul; the body and environment; the emotions; language and linguistic theories; theory of mind and interaction theory; the self and subjectivity; social, material and conceptual environments; the memory arts, orality and literacy; and literature and the arts.

About the Authors

Miranda Anderson is an Anniversary Fellow at the University of Stirling and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on cognitive approaches to literature and culture. She is the author of The Renaissance Extended Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Michael Wheeler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step (MIT, 2005). He is co-editor of Heidegger and Cognitive Science (Palgrave, 2012) and The Mechanical Mind in History (MIT, 2008).