Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity

Miranda Anderson is Research Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on cognitive approaches to literature and culture. She is the author of The Extended Renaissance Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and editor of The Book of the Mirror: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays on the Cultural Story of the Mirror (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007). Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on Greek literature, society and thought, especially the emotions. He is the author of Sophocles: Antigone (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (Francis Cairns, 2010), and Aid s: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (OUP, 1993). Mark Sprevak is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on distributed cognition and computational models of the mind. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook to the Computational Mind (Routledge, 2018), The Turing Guide: Life, Work, Legacy (OUP, 2017) and New Waves in Philosophy of Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).