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«Res cogitans extensa»: A Philosophical Defense of the Extended Mind Thesis(744 Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes)

«Res cogitans extensa»: A Philosophical Defense of the Extended Mind Thesis(744 Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes)


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For Descartes, minds were essentially immaterial, non-extended things. Contemporary cognitive science prides itself on having exorcised the Cartesian ghost from the biological machine. However, it remains committed to the Cartesian vision of the mental as something purely inner. Against the idea that the mind resides solely in the brain, advocates of the situated and embodied nature of cognition have long stressed the importance of dynamic brain-body-environment couplings, the opportunistic exploitation of bodily morphology, the strategic performance of epistemically potent actions, the generation and use of external representations, and the cognitive scaffolding provided by artifacts and social-cultural practices. According to the extended mind thesis, a significant portion of human cognition literally extends beyond the brain into the body and its environment. This book aims to clarify the nature and the scope of this thesis, and to defend its central insight that cognition is not confined to the boundaries of the biological individual.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Extending the Mind: Mortification or Empowerment? – A Primer on the Principle of Parity – Embodiment, Dynamicism, and Extended Cognition – Language and Writing as Technologies of the Mind – Extended Reasoning – Three Objections to the Extended Mind Rebutted – Hybrid Creatures.

About the Author :
Georg Theiner, born in Vienna, received his PhD in Philosophy, with a Joint PhD in Cognitive Science and a Minor in History and Philosophy of Science, at Indiana University, Bloomington in 2008. His research interests are in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. During his tenure as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, he worked on the extended mind thesis and socially distributed cognition.


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  • ISBN-13: 9783631579374
  • Publisher: Peter Lang AG
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang AG
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 744 Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
  • Weight: 370 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3631579373
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 267
  • Sub Title: A Philosophical Defense of the Extended Mind Thesis
  • Width: 148 mm


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