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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Edinburgh University Press

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781474438131

RRP: £125.00

PAGES: 360

PUBLICATION DATE:
June 30, 2019

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Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

Miranda Anderson

Michael Wheeler

Reveals the diverse ways that cognition was seen as spread over brain, body and world in the 9-17th centuries 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.As many of the texts and practices have influenced later Western European society and culture, this book reveals vital stages in the historical development of our attempts to comprehend and optimise the distributed nature of cognition.

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Miranda Anderson

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).