Filozofija i drustvo 2018 Volume 29, Issue 4, Pages: 489-504
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1804489V
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Overcoming deadlock: Scientific and ethical reasons to embrace the extended mind thesis
Vold Karina (University of Cambridge, Faculty of Philosophy, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, UK)
The extended mind thesis maintains that while minds may be centrally located
in one’s brain-and-body, they are sometimes partly constituted by tools in
our environment. Critics argue that we have no reason to move from the claim
that cognition is embedded in the environment to the stronger claim that
cognition can be constituted by the environment. I will argue that there are
normative reasons, both scientific and ethical, for preferring the extended
account of the mind to the rival embedded account.
Keywords: extended cognition, intracranialism, embedded mind, ethics, theory selection, cognitive rehabilitation