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"Once we look for it, distributed cognition is ubiquitous in classical antiquity. This book is a fascinating examination of the tools that made thinking easier and of the complex boundaries between the individual mind and the group.-- ""Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan"" This is a fascinating volume that often reveals surprising analogies between contemporary accounts of distributed cognition and the views of several classical thinkers. It refreshingly goes beyond the contemporary focus on cognition as computation to consider the many ways in which body and world scaffold our psychic life, including its affective and conscious dimensions.-- ""Giovanna Colombetti, University of Exeter"""

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Miranda Anderson is Research Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on cognitive approaches to literature and culture. She is the author of The Extended Renaissance Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and editor of The Book of the Mirror: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays on the Cultural Story of the Mirror (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007). Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on Greek literature, society and thought, especially the emotions. He is the author of Sophocles: Antigone (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (Francis Cairns, 2010), and Aidôs: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (OUP, 1993). Mark Sprevak is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on distributed cognition and computational models of the mind. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook to the Computational Mind (Routledge, 2018), The Turing Guide: Life, Work, Legacy (OUP, 2017) and New Waves in Philosophy of Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

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