Extended Mind

Name: Extended Mind
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ISBN: 9780262014038

ISBN-10: 0262014033

ISBN-13: 9780262014038

Edition: 2010

Authors: Richard Menary

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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…

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List price: $9.75
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/21/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 390
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Richard Menary is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of Cognitive Integration and other books.




Introduction


The Extended Mind in Focus




The Extended Mind




Memento's Revenge


The Extended Mind, Extended




Defending the Bounds of Cognition




Coupling, Constitution, and the Cognitive Kind


A Reply to Adams and Aizawa




The Varieties of Externalism




The Alleged Coupling-Constitution Fallacy and the Mature Sciences




Meaning Making and the Mind of the Externalist




Exograms and Interdisciplinarity


History, the Extended Mind, and the Civilizing Process




Cognitive Integration and the Extended Mind




In Defense of Extended Functionalism




Consciousness, Broadly Construed




The Extended Infant


Utterance-Activity and Distributed Cognition




Representation in Extended Cognitive Systems


Does the Scaffolding of Language Extend the Mind?




The Extended Mind, the Concept of Belief, and Epistemic Credit



Contributors


Index