Philosopher's Zone - The Extended Mind

This is another excellent podcast from ABC Radio National (Australia) - this week they are talking about the extended mind - the idea that mind is not limited to the brain or the body and be seen to extend into culture and technology.

The classic paper on this topic is by Andy Clark and David Chalmers: The Extended Mind. There is a whole collection of papers on this subject at Philosophy Papers, a site curated by Chalmers.

Alan Saunders is the host of this show.

The Extended Mind

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Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? Some philosophers are now arguing that thoughts are not all in the head. The environment has an active role in driving cognition; cognition is sometimes made up of neural, bodily, and environmental processes. Their argument has excited a vigorous debate among philosophers and this week we discover what the fuss is about.

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Transcript will be published on 5 October

Guests

Richard Menary
Senior Lecturer and Programme Convenor in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong.

John Sutton
Professor in the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science

Further Information

Richard Menary's page a the University of Wollongong

John Sutton's Website

Publications

Title: The Extended Mind
Author: Edited by Richard Menary
Publisher: MIT Press (distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
Price: $65.00

Presenter

Alan Saunders

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