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Jun 2010
ISBN 0262014033
424 pp.
2 illus.
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The Extended Mind
Richard Menary

Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? In their famous 1998 paper "The Extended Mind," philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers posed this question and answered it provocatively: cognitive processes "ain't all in the head." The environment has an active role in driving cognition; cognition is sometimes made up of neural, bodily, and environmental processes. Their argument excited a vigorous debate among philosophers, both supporters and detractors. This volume brings together for the first time the best responses to Clark and Chalmers's bold proposal. These responses, together with the original paper by Clark and Chalmers, offer a valuable overview of the latest research on the extended mind thesis. The contributors first discuss (and answer) objections raised to Clark and Chalmers's thesis. Andy Clark himself responds to critics in an essay that uses the movie Memento's amnesia-aiding notes and tattoos to illustrate the workings of the extended mind. Contributors then consider the different directions in which the extended mind project might be taken, including the need for an approach that focuses on cognitive activity and practice.

Table of Contents
1 Introduction: The Extended Mind in Focus
by Richard Menary
2 The Extended Mind
by Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers
3 Memento's Revenge: The Extended Mind, Extended
by Andy Clark
4 Defending the Bounds of Cognition
by Fred Adams and Ken Aizawa
5 Coupling, Constitution, and the Cognitive Kind: A Reply to Adams and Aizawa
by Andy Clark
6 The Varieties of Externalism
by Susan Hurley
7 The Alleged Coupling-Constitution Fallacy and the Mature Sciences
by Don Ross and James Ladyman
8 Meaning Making and the Mind of the Externalist
by Robert A. Wilson
9 Exograms and Interdisciplinarity: History, the Extended Mind, and the Civilizing Process
by John Sutton
10 Cognitive Integration and the Extended Mind
by Richard Menary
11 In Defense of Extended Functionalism
by Michael Wheeler
12 Consciousness, Broadly Construed
by Mark Rowlands
13 The Extended Infant: Utterance-Activity and Distributed Cognition
by David Spurrett and Stephen Cowley
14 Representation in Extended Cognitive Systems: Does the Scaffolding of Language Extend the Mind?
by Robert D. Rupert
15 The Extended Mind, the Concept of Belief, and Epistemic Credit
by John Preston
 Contributors
 Index
 
 


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