The paper will discuss the extended mind thesis with a view to the notions of “agent” and of “mind”, while helping to clarify the relation between “embodiment” and the “extended mind”. I will suggest that the extended mind thesis constitutes a reductio ad absurdum of the notion of ‘mind’; the consequence of the extended mind debate should be to drop the notion of the mind altogether – rather th...

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...

The extended mind thesis (in brief, EMT) does not reserve a position for inner representations, which certainly play a substantive role in the making of human mind, however. It is, as a consequence, hard to conceive of perception as extended. The present paper, as a complement to EMT, argues that perceptual processes are extended, and so is perceptual content. The argument proceeds with three r...

We question two of the basic foundations of the Extended Mind hypothesis originally formulated by Clark and Chalmers, i.e. that all cognition is organism centered and that the important theoretical issues that the debate surrounding the Extended Mind hypothesis can fruitfully be resolved by to a large extent rely on invented examples of cognitive activities as the empirical foundation. We sugge...

Recent experimental evidence fromdevelopmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience indicates that humans are equippedwith unlearned elementarymathematical skills. However, formal mathematics has properties that cannot be reduced to these elementary cognitive capacities. The question then arises how human beings cognitively deal with more advanced mathematical ideas. This paper draws on the ex...

This paper explores the ramifications of the extended cognition thesis in the philosophy of mind for contemporary epistemology. In particular, it argues that all theories of knowledge need to accommodate the ability intuition that knowledge involves cognitive ability, but that once this requirement is understood correctly there is no reason why one could not have a conception of cognitive abili...