“Going mechanistic”: fun paper just published in Frontiers in Psychology. Culture seems to function as a classic example of “epistemic action” active externalismCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionenactivismExtended cognitionsituated cognition
Andy Clark in conversation with Joe Gelonesi. active externalismAndy ClarkCognitive sciencedistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitive scienceExtended cognitionExtended MindInternalism and externalismpersonal identitysituated cognition
A recent (freely available) paper from the very excellent Joel Krueger. 4eactive externalismEmbodied cognitive scienceenactivismExtended MindExternalismjoel kruegermusicsituated cognition
I guess Hayek, the granddaddy of modern extended- and distributed- knowledge and cognition theorizing, is persona non grata — at least here. active externalismdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeFriedrich Hayeksocial epistemology
Publisher’s blurb: “How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of…
There are two reasons to check out this documentary on Glen Campbell. First, is his going public about his cognitive decline. The trials and tribulations of Glen and his family will have resonance for anyone who has had experience of caring for a dementia sufferer. Cases such as these provide philosophical food for thought about personal identity and…
Recent talk by Andy. active externalismAndy ClarkCognitive scienceExtended cognitionExtended MindPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Penultimate version. The aim of this article is to show that externalist accounts of cognition such as Clark and Chalmers’ (1998) “active externalism” lead to an explosion of knowledge that is caused by online resources such as Wikipedia and Google. I argue that externalist accounts of cognition imply that subjects who integrate mobile Internet access…
An interesting piece since it references literature beyond the canonical extended mind hypothesis. active externalismAndy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid ChalmersExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
This from the New Philosopher. Andy’s colleagues at Edinburgh in the epistemology department proposed the extended knowledge project, where you start thinking of knowledge as this extended process that involves interaction with the environment. I’ve been calling it stigmergic epistemology. active externalismAndy ClarkCognitionCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDavid ChalmersEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsocial epistemologyStigmergy
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