Editorial introduction: Socializing the extended mind

Introduction : Socializing the Extended Mind

Introduction: Memory, Embodied Cognition, and the Extended Mind

I introduce the seven papers in this special issue, by Andy Clark, Jérôme Dokic, Richard Menary, Jenann Ismael, Sue Campbell, Doris McIlwain, and Mark Rowlands. This paper explains the motivation for an alliance between the sciences of memory and the extended mind hypothesis. It examines in turn the role of worldly, social, and internalized forms of scaffolding to memory and cognition, and also...

Mind the Brain Guest Editorial

The mind-body problem has lain at the heart of the way we think about human nature throughout modern thought. It became a problem for science in the early nineteenth century when efforts were first made to provide systematic observations on the relationship between mind and brain (Young, 1990). Today we are witnessing a revolution in neuroscience, as researchers chart the circuitry of memory, c...

The Web-Extended Mind

This version of the paper was submitted to the journal Metaphilosophy as part of a special issue dealing with the philosophy of the Web. The definitive version of the paper will be made available at Abstract The rapid growth and penetration of the Web raises important questions about its effects, not just on our social activities, but also on the nature of our cognitive and epistemic profiles. ...

The Extended Mind

Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? The question invites two standard replies. Some accept the boundaries of skin and skull, and say that what is outside the body is outside the mind. Others are impressed by arguments suggesting that the meaning of our words ‘just ain’t in the head’, and hold that this externalism about meaning carries over into an externalism about mind. ...