Deadline for applications: Oct 31st, 2014
In philosophy and cognitive science a range of recent theories argue that the mind is not just brain-based but is distributed across the brain, body and world. This workshop series, part of a larger, AHRC-funded project, explores the historical expression of related notions of the mind as distributed.
There will be a series of four workshops:
Workshop 1. Distributed Cognition: From Early Greece to Late Antiquity (31 April - 1 May 2015)
http://www.academia.edu/8671047/HDC_Workshop_1_From_Early_Greece_to_Late_Antiquity
Workshop 2. Distributed Cognition: From Medieval to Renaissance Culture (25 - 26 May 2015)
http://www.academia.edu/8671088/HDC_Workshop_2_From_Medieval_to_Renaissance_Culture
Workshop 3. Distributed Cognition: From the Enlightenment to Romanticism (18 -19 June 2015)
https://www.academia.edu/8671117/HDC_Workshop_3_From_the_Enlightenment_to_Romanticism
Workshop 4. Distributed Cognition: From Victorian Culture to Modernism (2 - 3 July 2015)
http://www.academia.edu/8671134/HDC_Workshop_4_From_Victorian_Culture_to_Modernism
Please find specific information for each of these workshops under the links above and email Miranda.Anderson(at)ed.ac(dot)uk for more information or with any queries. Twelve participants will meet at each of the closed workshops to present a 25 minute paper and join in roundtable discussions. It is expected that the workshop participants will have watched and will engage with the eight specially created virtual seminars by influential philosophers working on current debates and hypotheses about distributed cognition, and will reflect on the expression of these notions in their own period.
We invite abstracts of 250-500 words before 5pm (UK time) on October 31st 2014 on topics which can be closely related to the foci of the project and virtual seminars (listed below). We will invite papers of a suitable standard to be revised and submitted for publication as part of the book series.
This workshop may be of interest to, and we invite applications from, scholars working on the history of philosophy, history of medicine, history of science, intellectual history, history of ideas, literary studies, history of art and archaeology.Three places at each workshop have been reserved for early career postdoctoral scholars and funding towards travel and accommodation costs will be provided.
We expect submissions to engage with one or more topics (or related aspects of distributed cognition) that will be covered in the virtual seminar series.The seminar series will cover the following topics:
1. 'Distributed Cognition in the Continental & Analytical Traditions', Prof Michael Wheeler (University of Stirling)
2. 'Embodied Cognition', Prof Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis)
3. 'The Extended Mind', Prof Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh)
4. 'Enactivism', Prof Ezequiel di Paolo (Ikerbasque, San Sebastián)
5. 'Emotions in the Body and World', Prof Giovanna Colombetti (University of Exeter)
6. 'Memory as a Test Case for Distributed Cognition', Prof John Sutton (Macquarie University)
7. 'The Phenomenological We', Prof Dan Zahavi (Centre for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen)
8: 'Social Cognition', Prof Deborah Tollefsen (University of Memphis)
Further information:
http://eidyn.ppls.ed.ac.uk/history-distributed-cognition-2013-14
http://eidyn.ppls.ed.ac.uk/history-distributed-cognition-2014-18
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/history-classics-archaeology/news-events/news/research-award-announced
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