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The Renaissance Extended Mind

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  1. Miranda Anderson

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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Part of the book series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (NDPCS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. The Extended Mind

    • Miranda Anderson
    Pages 1-40

  3. Extending Literary Theory and the Psychoanalytic Tradition

    • Miranda Anderson
    Pages 41-67

  4. Renaissance Subjects: Ensouled and Embodied

    • Miranda Anderson
    Pages 68-115

  5. Renaissance Language and Memory Forms

    • Miranda Anderson
    Pages 116-144

  6. Renaissance Intrasubjectivity and Intersubjectivity

    • Miranda Anderson
    Pages 145-178

  7. Shakespeare: Natural-Born Mirrors

    • Miranda Anderson
    Pages 179-205

  8. Shakespeare: Perspectives and Words of Glass

    • Miranda Anderson
    Pages 206-243

  9. Epilogue

    • Miranda Anderson
    Pages 244-246

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 247-278
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The Renaissance Extended Mind explores the parallels and contrasts between current philosophical notions of the mind as extended across brain, body and world, and analogous notions in literary, philosophical, and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth century and early-seventeenth century.

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"The author displays a truly impressive knowledge of a variety of issues from the Renaissance, Shakespeare, and the contemporary debate in cognitive science about the embodied and extended mind. Miranda Anderson is a Renaissance woman herself, able to read ancient debates in light of more recent ones this book is aimed not just at literary theorists but also philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists."

- Giovanna Colombetti, Professor of Philosophy, University of Exeter, UK

'Imaginatively perceptive, persuasive, rigorously argued, this book sets up a genuine dialogue between Renaissance texts and the adaptable in-the-world modes of engagement evoked by current studies of distributed cognition. It heralds a whole new series of explorations of the literary archive as culturally inflected evidence of human cognition.'

- Terence Cave, University of Oxford, UK

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    Miranda Anderson

About the author

Miranda Anderson is a literary scholar at the University of Edinburgh. She is the initiator of, and a Research Fellow on, the AHRC-funded project, A History of Distributed Cognition. She received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for work on this book and was a Research Associate on the Balzan Project, based at St John's College, Oxford University. Dr Anderson combines specialization in Renaissance literary, philosophical and scientific texts, with a broader interest in investigating paradigms of the mind and self across historical and disciplinary boundaries.

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