Amy Cook Vice Provost of Academic Affairs, Stony Brook University Professor of English, Stony Brooky University Amy Cook is the Vice Provost of Academic Affairs at Stony Brook University and Professor of English. Most recently, she published “Shadow Play: Loss and Performativity” in TDR about art, mourning, and 4E cognition. Her scholarship integrates research from the cognitive sciences into theatre and performance, with particular attention to Shakespeare. She has published Shakespearean Futures: casting the bodies of tomorrow on Shakespeare’s stages today (Cambridge Elements 2020), Building Character: The Art and Science of Casting (Michigan 2018), Shakespearean Neuroplay: Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and Performance Through Cognitive Science (Palgrave 2010), and co-edited, with Rhonda Blair, Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies (Methuen 2016). Papers / Presentations: “Shadow Play: Loss and Performativity,” TDR 67:4 (T260), 2023. “4E Cognition and the Humanities,” The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition. A. Newen, L. de Bruin and S. Gallagher, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. “King of Shadows: Early Modern Characters and Actors,” Shakespeare and Consciousness. Eds. Paul Budra and Clifford Werier. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Participant In: Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness September 21st, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Panpsychism is the lightly subscribed philosophical position that consciousness is a property of all matter, large and small, simple and complex, alive and inert. According to panpsychism mind is everywhere. Eliminativism is the view that consciousness, at least what most of us consider our mind’s eye access to reality (phenomenal consciousness), exists quite literally nowhere, not even… read more »
Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness September 21st, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Panpsychism is the lightly subscribed philosophical position that consciousness is a property of all matter, large and small, simple and complex, alive and inert. According to panpsychism mind is everywhere. Eliminativism is the view that consciousness, at least what most of us consider our mind’s eye access to reality (phenomenal consciousness), exists quite literally nowhere, not even… read more »