Studies of mind, thought and reason have tended to marginalize the role of bodily form, real-world action, and environmental backdrop. In recent years, both in philosophy and cognitive science, this tendency has been identified and, increasingly, resisted. The result is a plethora of work on what has become known as embodied, situated, distributed, and even 'extended' cognition. Work in this new, loosely knit field depicts thought and reason as in some way inextricably tied to the details of our gross bodily form, our habits of action and intervention, and the enabling web of social, cultural, and technological scaffolding in which we live, move, learn, and think. But exactly what kind of link is at issue? And what difference might such a link or links make to our best philosophical, psychological, and computational models of thought and reason? These are among the large unsolved problems in this increasingly popular field. Drawing upon recent work in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, human-computer systems, and beyond, Supersizing the Mind offers both a tour of the emerging landscape, and a sustained argument in favor of one approach to the key issues. That approach combines the use of representational, computational, and information-theoretic tools with an appreciation of the importance of context, timing, biomechanics, and dynamics. More controversially, it depicts some coalitions of biological and non-biological resources as the extended cognitive circuitry of individual minds. With a substantial foreword by David Chalmers, Supersizing the Mind is essential reading for all those interested in embodied cognition, the extended mind, and the likely shape of twenty-first century cognitive scientific explanation.
| ISBN | 0195333217 | | Pages | 316 | | ISBN13 | 9780195333213
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 580 | | Imprint | Oxford University Press Inc | | Published in | New York | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Philosophy of the Mind | | Publication date | 06 Nov 2008 | | Height (mm) | 242 | | Library of Congress | 2007051359 | | Width (mm) | 165 | | DEWEY | 128.2 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Foreword by David Chalmers | | |
| Introduction | | Brainbound Versus Extended | | |
| I | | From Embodiment to Cognitive Extension | | |
| 1 | | The Active Body | | 3 |
| 2 | | The Negotiable Body | | 30 |
| 3 | | Material Symbols | | 44 |
| 4 | | World, Incorporated | | 61 |
| II | | Boundary Disputes | | |
| 5 | | Mind Re-bound? | | 85 |
| 6 | | The Cure for Cognitive Hiccups (HEMC, HEC, HEMC ...) | | 111 |
| 7 | | Rediscovering the Brain | | 140 |
| III | | The Limits of Embodiment | | |
| 8 | | Painting, Planning, and Perceiving | | 169 |
| 9 | | Disentangling Embodiment | | 196 |
| 10 | | Conclusions: Mind as Mashup | | 218 |
| App | | The Extended Mind, by Andy Clark and David Chalmers | | 220 |
| | | Notes | | 233 |
| | | References | | 255 |
| | | Index | | 277 |
an important book for all cognitive-science theorists of all stripes... Supersizing the Mind will set the terms for many of the coming debates Evan Thompson, Times Literary Supplement Supersizing the Mind is a treat to read. It is brimming with remarkable ideas, novel insights and amusing language. Melvyn Goodale, Nature [A] brilliant new book... Dave Chalmers...offers a terrific introduction... Supersizing the Mind provides the best argument I've seen for the idea that minds are smeared over more space than neuroscience might have us believe Owen Flanagan, New Scientist
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