The Renaissance Extended Mind

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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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Miranda Anderson

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Renaissance Shakespeare Extended Mind Distributed Cognition Embodied Mind Embodied Cognition Enactivism Renaissance Philosophy Renaissance Literature Cognitive Literary Studies event memory philosophy seventeenth century William Shakespeare

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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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