
The Extended Mind
Richard Menary(Editor)
Bradford Books (Publisher)
Published on 17. August 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-0-262-51801-7 (ISBN)
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Leading scholars respond to the famous proposition by Andy Clark and David Chalmers that cognition and mind are not located exclusively in the head.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 J. 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. 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Massachusetts
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
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Paperback (trade)
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2 s/w Abbildungen
2 b&w illus.
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-51801-7 (9780262518017)
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Richard Menary is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of Cognitive Integration and other books.
Content
1 Introduction
The Extended Mind in Focus
Richard Menary
2 The Extended Mind
Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers 27
3 Memento's Revenge
The Extended Mind, Extended
Andy Clark 43
4 Defending the Bounds of Cognition
Fred Adams and Ken Aizawa 67
5 Coupling, Constitution, and the Cognitive Kind
A Reply to Adams and Aizawa
Andy Clark 81
6 The Varieties of Externalism
Susan Hurley 101
7 The Alleged Coupling-Constitution Fallacy and the Mature Sciences
Don Ross and James Ladyman 155
8 Meaning Making and the Mind of the Externalist
Robert A. Wilson 167
9 Exograms and Interdisciplinarity
History, the Extended Mind, and the Civilizing Process
John Sutton 189
10 Cognitive Integration and the Extended Mind
Richard Menary 227
11 In Defense of Extended Functionalism
Michael Wheeler 245
12 Consciousness, Broadly Construed
Mark Rowlands 271
13 The Extended Infant
Utterance-Activity and Distributed Cognition
David Spurrett and Stephen Cowley 295
14 Representation in Extended Cognitive Systems
Does the Scaffolding of Language Extend the Mind?
Robert D. Rupert 325
15 The Extended Mind, the Concept of Belief, and Epistemic Credit
John Preston 355
Contributors 371
Index
The Extended Mind in Focus
Richard Menary
2 The Extended Mind
Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers 27
3 Memento's Revenge
The Extended Mind, Extended
Andy Clark 43
4 Defending the Bounds of Cognition
Fred Adams and Ken Aizawa 67
5 Coupling, Constitution, and the Cognitive Kind
A Reply to Adams and Aizawa
Andy Clark 81
6 The Varieties of Externalism
Susan Hurley 101
7 The Alleged Coupling-Constitution Fallacy and the Mature Sciences
Don Ross and James Ladyman 155
8 Meaning Making and the Mind of the Externalist
Robert A. Wilson 167
9 Exograms and Interdisciplinarity
History, the Extended Mind, and the Civilizing Process
John Sutton 189
10 Cognitive Integration and the Extended Mind
Richard Menary 227
11 In Defense of Extended Functionalism
Michael Wheeler 245
12 Consciousness, Broadly Construed
Mark Rowlands 271
13 The Extended Infant
Utterance-Activity and Distributed Cognition
David Spurrett and Stephen Cowley 295
14 Representation in Extended Cognitive Systems
Does the Scaffolding of Language Extend the Mind?
Robert D. Rupert 325
15 The Extended Mind, the Concept of Belief, and Epistemic Credit
John Preston 355
Contributors 371
Index