
The Extended Mind
- Paperback
392 pages
- Release Date
17 August 2012
Summary
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, bo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262518017 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262518015 |
| Author: | Richard Menary |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 392 |
| Release Date: | 17 August 2012 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology |
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About The Author
Richard Menary
Richard Menary is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of Cognitive Integration and other books.Andy Clark is Doctor of Philosophy at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex.Andy Clark is Doctor of Philosophy at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex.Andy Clark is Doctor of Philosophy at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex.Susan Hurley is Professor at the University of Warwick, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.Don Ross is Professor of Economics and Dean of Commerce at the University of Cape Town, and Research Fellow in the Center for Economic Analysis of Risk at Georgia State University. He is the author of Economic Theory and Cognitive Science- Microexplanation (MIT Press, 2005), companion volume to Midbrain Mutiny.Robert A. Wilsonis Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe University, the author ofGenes and the Agents of Life, and coeditor ofThe MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciencesand of Explanation and Cognition(MIT Press).He directed the project that builtEugenicsArchive.caand is a director and the executive producer of the documentarySurviving Eugenics.John Sutton is Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.Richard Menary is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of Cognitive Integration and other books.Michael Wheeler is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Reconstructing the Cognitive World- The Next Step (MIT Press, 2005).Mark Rowlands is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of The Body in Mind- Understanding Cognitive Processes, Body Language- Representation in Action (MIT Press, 2006), The Philosopher and the Wolf, and other books.David Spurrett is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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