Professor John Sutton

John Sutton is Professor of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University in Sydney, where he was previously Head of the Department of Philosophy. He works on memory and skill, in a range of projects influenced by ideas of distributed cognition and cognitive history. He has recently coedited volumes on Collaborative Remembering (OUP, 2018) andCollaborative Embodied Performance: ecologies of skill (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2021). His recent research addresses embodied knowledge in the Maori haka; distributed creativity in film and music; place and memory; and cognitive change in the Neolithic. He is editing the first full English translation of Maurice Halbwachs’ The Social Frameworks of Memory (1925) for OUP.