Other resources

What follows is a list of different web resources for more information on cognitive approaches and related subjects:

The one essential resource for any classicist interested in cognitive approaches, Cognitive Classics houses two bibliographies, one on cognitive humanities and one on cognitive classics, divided by specific topics (e.g. emotion, memory, metaphor). This platform is also a community-building tool: the “People” section lists classicists with an interest in cognitive approaches from all around the world. Managed by Felix Budelmann and Katharine Earnshaw.

From the website: “Authoritative and unrivaled, MIT CogNet is the essential research tool for scholars in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.” It houses a trove of reference works, which can all be read online through institutional access.

Honour in Classical Greece: esteem, status, identity, and society in ancient Greek literature, life, and thought is a research project led by Douglas Cairns and Mirko Canevaro at the University of Edinburgh and funded by the European Research Council. From the website: “Using the findings of contemporary sociology and philosophy, with contributions from other disciplines from economics to literary studies, cognitive linguistics, and psychology, Honour in Classical Greece will lead to a root and branch transformation of the idées fixes that still mould the understanding of honour (Greek timê) in our ancient Greek sources.”

An online magazine dedicated to intellectual curiosity in all its forms. Many contributing authors are important names in cognitive studies, e.g. George Lakoff, Daniel C. Dennett, Andy Clark, Dan Sperber, Francisco Varela, among others.

The personal page of cognitive scientist Ezequiel Di Paolo, research Professor at the Basque Science Foundation (Ikerbasque), is a valuable resource for updates on recent findings and publications in cognitive science, especially in the field of enactive cognition.

The webpage for The History of Distributed Cognition Project, led by Miranda Anderson, Douglas Cairns, Mark Sprevak and Mike Wheeler, includes videos of seminars by eminent scholars and a blog chockful of useful information on distributed cognition and related subjects.