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

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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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Book Title: The Renaissance Extended Mind
Authors: Miranda Anderson
Series Title: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137412850
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-41284-3Published: 08 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-41285-0Published: 08 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2946-2959
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2967
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 285
Topics: History of Philosophy, Poetry and Poetics, History of Science, History of Medicine, History of the Book, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

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