Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture
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Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture by Miranda Anderson
Revitalising our reading of 18th century works specifically in the fields of the history of the book, literary studies, material culture, art history, philosophy, technology, science and medicine, this volume brings recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on the distributed nature of cognition. Collectively, the essays show how the particular range of sociocultural and technological contexts of the time fostered and reflected particular notions of distributed cognition.
An innovative, thought-provoking approach to eighteenth-century cultureBy applying new notions of the human mind as extended across brain, body, and environment, contributors open up refreshing perspectives on the most significant issues in Enlightenment and Romantic Studies. * Avi S. Lifschitz, Magdalen College, University of Oxford *
A relatively recent, but pronounced, paradigm shift in cognitive science sees cognition as distributed across brain, body and world. This latest offering from the series, The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition, is a groundbreaking investigation of the implications of this distributed conception of cognition for our understanding of literature in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. Anderson, Rousseau and Wheeler have assembled a set of consistently excellent contributions. The result is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of cognition and also provides a dramatically original way of reading works of the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. * Mark Rowlands, University of Miami *
A relatively recent, but pronounced, paradigm shift in cognitive science sees cognition as distributed across brain, body and world. This latest offering from the series, The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition, is a groundbreaking investigation of the implications of this distributed conception of cognition for our understanding of literature in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. Anderson, Rousseau and Wheeler have assembled a set of consistently excellent contributions. The result is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of cognition and also provides a dramatically original way of reading works of the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. * Mark Rowlands, University of Miami *
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). George Rousseau is a Cultural Historian and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He taught at Harvard for many years, was Professor at UCLA, Regius Professor at King’s College Aberdeen and was Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood at Oxford University until 2013. His books centre chronologically in the Enlightenment and usually include medicine, science and sex as primary to their concerns. 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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781474442282 |
| ISBN 10 | 1474442285 |
| Title | Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture |
| Author | Miranda Anderson |
| Series | The Edinburgh History Of Distributed Cognition |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2019-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
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