Extended Mind: Special Section in TEOREMA
Here is a bunch of extended mind papers in the Spring issue of Teorema.
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Nurturing the Mind: Extended Functionalism, Complementarity and the Deep Blue Sea
Here’s the penultimate draft of the aforementioned paper by Julian Kiverstein and Mirko Farina: Abstract: Like many other studies, this paper focuses on the ways in which the functional isomorphism between neural and extra-neural features can provide the means to meet the criteria for cognitive extension. However, unlike these other studies, this paper acknowledges the…
Consciousness in Interaction: The Role of the Natural and Social Context in Shaping Consciousness
My chum Mirko Farina has alerted me to a high-powered collection he and co-author Julian Kiverstein are contributing to. Here is the table of contents. One of the intriguing chapter titles is by Andy Clark. (Mirko tells me the volume has been severely delayed). I’m also looking forward to Mirko’s review of another contributor to this…
The Metaphysics of Mind
This past weekend I attended the Timothy Sprigge Memorial Conference (see link to obituary by Jane O’Grady who was in attendence). I met Sprigge in 1997 at the Bradley conference at Harris-Manchester College Oxford, a time when I was very interested in the idealists. Funny how philosophical changes come and go – Sprigge, ever the…
A Smorgasbord of “Situated” Projects
There is an excellent collection of papers comprising the latest issue of Topoi (Volume 28, Number 1 / March, 2009). I assume that because of the introduction “Mind Embodied, Embedded, Enacted: One Church or Many?” this issue was pulled together by Julian Kiverstein and Andy Clark. They set up the issue by posing the following…
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