Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture
Miranda Anderson, George Rousseau, and Michael Wheeler
Abstract
This collection brings together eleven essays by international specialists in Romantic and Enlightenment culture and provides a general and a period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities. The essays revitalise our reading of Romantic and Enlightenment works in the fields of archaeology, history, drama, literature, art, philosophy, science and medicine, by bringing to bear recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind on the ways in which cognition is distributed across brain, body and world. The volume makes evident the ways in which the part ... More
This collection brings together eleven essays by international specialists in Romantic and Enlightenment culture and provides a general and a period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities. The essays revitalise our reading of Romantic and Enlightenment works in the fields of archaeology, history, drama, literature, art, philosophy, science and medicine, by bringing to bear recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind on the ways in which cognition is distributed across brain, body and world. The volume makes evident the ways in which the particular range of sociocultural and technological contexts that existed during the long eighteenth century periods fostered and reflected particular notions of distributed cognition.
Keywords:
distributed cognition,
extended cognition,
enactivism,
embodied cognition,
Enlightenment,
Romanticism,
long eighteenth century,
cognitive humanities
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781474442282 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2020 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474442282.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Miranda Anderson, editor
University of Stirling
George Rousseau, editor
Royal Historical Society
Michael Wheeler, editor
University of Stirling
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