Call for Papers: History of Distributed Cognition

I heard about a particularly interesting call for papers last week. It relates to a big new project called ‘A History of Distributed Cognition’. The project takes modern ideas about the way in which the mind is ‘not just brain based but is distributed across the brain, body and world’, and looks back into earlier cultures to explore ‘the historical expression of related notions’. You can find out about it here and it gets a mention in this interesting blog post.

There will be a series of four workshops, covering four eras: Early Greece to Late Antiquity, Medieval to Renaissance Culture, From the Enlightenment to Romanticism , and From Victorian Culture to Modernism. I am going to be involved in the second one. You can e-mail Miranda.Anderson@ed.ac.uk for more information or with any queries, and the deadline is October 31st. They welcome applications from scholars working on the history of philosophy, history of medicine, history of science, intellectual history, history of ideas, literary studies, history of art and archaeology.

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Another part of the project is a series of virtual seminars led by an impressive line-up:

1. ‘Distributed Cognition in the Continental & Analytical Traditions’, Prof Michael Wheeler (University of Stirling)
2. ‘Embodied Cognition’, Prof Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis)
3. ‘The Extended Mind’, Prof Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh)
4. ‘Enactivism’, Prof Ezequiel di Paolo (Ikerbasque, San Sebastián)
5. ‘Emotions in the Body and World’, Prof Giovanna Colombetti (University of Exeter)
6. ‘Memory as a Test Case for Distributed Cognition’, Prof John Sutton (Macquarie University)
7. ‘The Phenomenological We’, Prof Dan Zahavi (Centre for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen)
8: ‘Social Cognition’, Prof Deborah Tollefsen (University of Memphis)

 

E-mail me at rtrl100[at]cam.ac.uk

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