Andrew M. Riggsby

I am working to complete the final stages of a book project which explores the value of modern cognitive science to humanistic (especially historical) research by means of a series of case studies of ancient Roman material. The various studies touch on different types of material (e.g. law, art, the lexicon, memory) and appeal to a number of different cognitive frameworks (e.g. experimental memory work, distributed cognition, cognitive semantics, predictive processing). The animating impulses, however, are more abstract methodological question. What value can cognitive science bring to study of the past; what is it not good for; and what are the possible contributions in the other direction, that is from history to the sciences?

Website address: https://andrewriggsby.academia.edu/