
The New Science of the Mind
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There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind. In this book, leading philosopher Mark Rowlands investigates the conceptual foundations of this new science of the mind. The new way of thinking about the mind emphasizes the ways in which mental processes are embodied (made up partly of extraneural bodily structures and processes), embedded (designed to function in tandem with the environment), enacted (constituted in part by action), and extended (located in the environment).
The new way of thinking about the mind, Rowlands writes, is actually an old way of thinking that has taken on new form. Rowlands describes a conception of mind that had its clearest expression in phenomenology—in the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. He builds on these views, clarifies and renders consistent the ideas of embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended mind, and develops a unified philosophical treatment of the novel conception of the mind that underlies the new science of the mind.
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1 Expanding the Mind 1
2 Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science 25
3 The Mind Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, and Extended 51
4 Objections to the Mind Amalgamated 85
5 The Mark of the Cognitive 107
6 The Problem of Ownership 135
7 Intentionality as Revealing Activity 163
8 The Mind Amalgamated 189
Notes 219
References 229
Index 239