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The Renaissance Extended Mind.

1137412852

1349577847

9781137412850

9781349577842

b557207

The Renaissance Extended Mind.

[Book]

Miranda Anderson

London

Palgrave Macmillan UK

2015

(298 pages).

New directions in philosophy and cognitive science.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Transcription; 1 The Extended Mind; 1.1 Mind, consciousness and self; 1.2 Embodiment and neural plasticity; 1.3 Embodiment, emulator circuits and affective sense-making; 1.4 Word mind tools; 1.5 Phenomenology versus heterophenomenology; 1.6 Mirror neurons and extended subjectivity; 1.7 Conclusion; 2 Extending Literary Theory and the Psychoanalytic Tradition; 2.1 Interdisciplinarity; 2.2 Arts and sciences; 2.3 Psychoanalysis, new historicism and EM; 2.4 Freud and beyond; 2.5 The subject and language in Lacan. 2.6 Judith Butler's bodies of discourse2.7 Reappraising; 3 Renaissance Subjects: Ensouled and Embodied; 3.1 The matter of the Renaissance mind; 3.2 Outwardness and inwardness; 3.3 The issue of the immortal soul; 3.4 Soul: the three degrees; 3.5 Humoural humans; 3.6 Passions, spirits and mutable matter; 3.7 Microcosms and hybrids; 3.8 Conclusion; 4 Renaissance Language and Memory Forms; 4.1 A cognitive fossil trail; 4.2 Text, tongue and hand; 4.3 Character and conception forms; 4.4 Conclusion; 5 Renaissance Intrasubjectivity and Intersubjectivity; 5.1 One in many and many in one. 5.2 Composite subjects5.3 'By rivers fountains': Renaissance theory of mind; 5.4 Renaissance mirrors; 5.5 Conclusion; 6 Shakespeare: Natural-Born Mirrors; 6.1 Reflecting images: mortal and divine; 6.2 Glass women; 6.3 Looking glasses of love; 6.4 Conclusion; 7 Shakespeare: Perspectives and Words of Glass; 7.1 Uneven mirrors of the mind in Richard II; 7.2 Hamlet : catch the conscience; 7.3 Socially extended reflexivity; 7.4 Sonnet 77's glass, dial and book; 7.5 Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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.

Cognition -- Philosophy.

Philosophy of mind.

Philosophy, Renaissance.

Miranda Anderson

Miranda Anderson

[Book]

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