the present study has a cognitive approach to empathy and character engagement in cinema. in discussing how through empathy and engagement with real and fictional characters, we extend our minds and enhance our cognitive abilities, the present paper studies bahram tavakkoli’s wandering in the fog (2010), to show how andy clark and david chalmers’s idea of the extended mind as joined with murray...

It’s a pleasure to contribute this paper to Andy Clark and his Critics. Andy has been an influential figure for me ever since I read his first book Microcognition while I was in graduate school. A few years later I took up my first job as a post-doctoral fellow working with him in the newly initiated Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St Louis. We had a lot o...

Abstract How does the integration of mixed reality devices into our cognitive practices impact mind from a metaphysical and epistemological perspective? In his innovative interdisciplinary article, “Minds in Metaverse: Extended Cognition Meets Mixed Reality” (2022), Paul Smart addresses this underexplored question, arguing that use hypothetical application Microsoft HoloLens called “the HoloFol...