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Author:   Peter Garratt
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   4.653kg
ISBN:  

9781137593283

ISBN 10:   1137593288
Pages:   259
Publication Date:   19 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1.The Cognitive Humanities; Peter Garratt.- Part I. Theorizing the Embodied Mind.- Chapter 2. Enactive Cognition and Fictional Worlds; Merja Polvinen.- Chapter 3. The Opacity of Fictional Minds; Marco Bernini.- Chapter 4. ‘Un-Walling’ the Wall; Barbara Dancygier.- Chapter 5. Textures of Thought; Teemu Paavolainen.- Part II. Reading Culture.- Chapter 6. Extending the Renaissance Mind; Miranda Anderson.- Chapter 7.‘Her Silence Flouts Me’; Laura Seymour.- Chapter 8. From World to Worldview; Michael Sinding.- Part III. Cognitive Futures.- Chapter 9. Bayesian Bodies; Karin Kukkonen.- Chapter 10. Emergences; Nigel McLoughlin.- Chapter 11. Autism in the Wild; Nicola Shaughnessy and Melissa Trimingham.- Chapter 12. Hardware, Software, Wetware; Matt Hayler.- Bibliography.

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The Cognitive Humanities is an edited collection of eleven essays from across the humanities, including literary studies, linguistics, theatre and performance studies, philosophy and history. ... this volume will absolutelty be of value to many medical humanities scholars ... . (Emma Seaber, Centre for Medical Humanities Durham University, centreformedicalhumanities.org, October, 2017)

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Peter Garratt is Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK. He is a specialist in nineteenth-century literature and culture, and has published on writers such as George Eliot, Dickens and Ruskin, and on topics in cognitive theory and the medical humanities. His first book, Victorian Empiricism, was published in 2010.

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