Its a pleasure to contribute to this volume honoring andy clark. The extended mind institute of cognitive and decision sciences. What does it mean to claim that the mind extends beyond the brain in some meaningful way. Clark 1997 draws on a wide body of empirical research in robotics, artificial life, connectionism, developmental psychology, and economics to make a case for extended cognition. In preceding pages of this chapter, a number of interrelated topics that are central to embodied cognitive science have been introduced. Can objects in the external environment, such as a. Chalmers posed those questions and answered them provocatively. This volume brings together for the first time the best responses to clark and chalmers s bold proposal. Pdf the extended mind em thesis asserts that cognitive processes. The extended mind em thesis asserts that cognitive processes are not bound by the skull or even skin of biological individuals, but actively incorporate environmental structures such as. The many bubble interpretation, externalism, the extended mind of david chalmers and andy clark, and the work of alva noe in connection with experimental philosophy and dreamwork. In philosophy of mind, the extended mind thesis emt says that the mind does not exclusively. Some accept the boundaries of skin and skull, and say that what is outside the body is outside the mind.
These responses, together with the original paper by clark and chalmers, offer a valuable overview of the. They argue that it is arbitrary to say that the mind is contained only within the. The emt was proposed by andy clark and david chalmers in the extended mind. Clark and chalmers 1998 provides the seminal statement of the extended mind thesis, and much of the current debate is in part based on the arguments of this paper. Others are impressed by arguments suggesting that the meaning of our words. Chalmers department of philosophy washington university st. Introduction where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin. Department of philosophy university of arizona tucson, az 85721. Others are impressed by arguments suggesting that the meaning of our words just aint in the head, and hold that this externalism about meaning carries over into an externalism. Sangkyu shin, extended mind and the extension of a self. Some accept the intuitive demarcations of skin and skull, and say that what is outside the body is outside the mind.
The human brain is a leaky associative engine clark 1993, shaped in both evolution and development so as actively to integrate and coopt external resources such as media, objects, and other people. The contributors first discuss and answer objections raised to clark and chalmers s thesis. Contributors then consider the different directions in which the extended mind project might be taken, including the. Extended cognition and extended consciousness david chalmers. We suggest that clark and chalmers miss a necessary ontological difference between the mind and utensils that can realize the nature and limits. The extended mind thesis philosophy oxford bibliographies. Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin. The extended mind by andy clark and david chalmers 1998 is a seminal work in the field of extended cognition. In this paper, clark and chalmers present the idea of active externalism similar to semantic or content externalism, in which objects within the environment function as a part of the mind. The mother of all resourcedriven arguments is clark and chalmers. These responses, together with the original paper by clark and chalmers, offer a valuable overview of the latest research on the extended mind thesis.
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