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In metaphysics, extension signifies both 'stretching out' (Latin: extensio) as well as later 'taking up space', and most recently, spreading one's internal mental cognition into the external world. The history of thinking about extension can be traced back at least to Archytas' spear analogy for the infinity of space. How far can one's hand or ...
In the philosophy of mind, externalism is the view that what is going on inside an individual’s body does not always, on its own, fix what is going on inside that individual’s mind. The mind, in this sense, simply denotes the totality of mental occurrences undergone by an individual at any given time. The body, in this sense, delineates the ...
29 cze 2015 · In their brief, bold, and controversial manifesto of a thorough, “active” externalism in the philosophy of mind, titled “The Extended Mind”, Clark and Chalmers highlight “the active role of the environment in driving cognitive processes” (1998, p. 7).
This phenomenon is called boundary extension and it is one of the most important sets of findings about the ways in which memory is constructed. This chapter argues that mental imagery plays a key role in boundary extension.
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology. Psychology aims to give us a scientific account of how the mind works. But what does it mean to have a science of the mental, and what sort of picture of the mind emerges from our best psychological theories?
5 sty 2016 · Already in the Rules for the Direction of the Mind (1628) Descartes formulated his fundamental theory of extension: “By extension we mean whatever has length, breadth and depth” (AT X 442, CSM I 58).
15 lip 2022 · The extended mind thesis states that the mind is not brain-bound but extends into the physical world. The philosophical debate around the thesis has mostly focused on extension towards epistemic artefacts, treating the phenomenon as a special capacity of the human organism to recruit external physical resources to solve individual tasks.
