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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818776003321

Titolo

The extended mind / / edited by Richard Menary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-63827-0

9786612638275

0-262-26602-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Collana

Life and mind

Altri autori (Persone)

MenaryRichard

Disciplina

128/.2

Soggetti

Externalism (Philosophy of mind)

Cognition - Philosophy

Philosophy of mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction: The Extended Mind in Focus; 2 The Extended Mind; 3 Memento's  Revenge: The Extended Mind, Extended; 4 Defending the Bounds of Cognition; 5 Coupling, Constitution, and the Cognitive Kind: A Reply to Adams and Aizawa; 6 The Varieties of Externalism; 7 The Alleged Coupling-Constitution Fallacy and the Mature Sciences; 8 Meaning Making and the Mind of the Externalist; 9 Exograms and Interdisciplinarity : History, the Extended Mind, and the Civilizing Process; 10 Cognitive Integration and the Extended Mind; 11 In Defense of Extended Functionalism

12 Consciousness, Broadly Construed13 The Extended Infant: Utterance-Activity and Distributed Cognition; 14 Representation in Extended Cognitive Systems: Does the Scaffolding of Language Extend the Mind?; 15 The Extended Mind, the Concept of Belief, and Epistemic Credit; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Leading scholars respond to the famous proposition by Andy Clark & David Chalmers that cognition & mind are not located exclusively in the head.