The mind beyond the head: Two arguments in favour of embedded cognition
In this paper I defend situated approaches of cognition, and the idea that mind, body and external world are inseparable. In the first section, I present some anti-Cartesian approaches of cognition and discuss the intuition they share that there is a constitutive interaction between mind,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Filozofija i Društvo |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2018/0353-57381804505R.pdf |
| Summary: | In this paper I defend situated approaches of cognition, and the idea that
mind, body and external world are inseparable. In the first section, I
present some anti-Cartesian approaches of cognition and discuss the
intuition they share that there is a constitutive interaction between mind,
body and external environment. In the second section, I present the fallacy
of the Cartesian theater of the mind and explain its theoretical premises.
In the third section, I present a spatial argument against it, and argue
that some case studies could give support to the idea of the mind stretching
over the boundaries of the skull. In the fourth section, I present a
temporal argument, and argue that even in this case the idea of an
interaction between our cognitive life and the external world has at least a
very strong intuitive palatability. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5738 2334-8577 |