Philosophical Psychology 15 (3):297-316 (2002)
Authors |
|
Abstract |
The "width" of the mind is an important topic in contemporary philosophical psychology. Support for active externalism derives from theoretical, engineering, and observational perspectives. Given the history of psychology, psychopathology is notable in its absence from the list of avenues of support for the idea that some cognitive processes extend beyond the physical bounds of the organism in question. The current project is to defend the possibility, plausibility, and desirability of externalist psychopathology. Doing so both adds to the case for externalism and suggests ways of improving our study of cognitive dysfunction. I establish the possibility of externalist psychopathology through the development of models of wide cognitive processing, and, by implication, failure of such processing, from the work of S.L. Hurley and Robert Wilson. The plausibility of wide conceptualization and explanation of cognitive disorders is shown through an examination of apraxia, disorders of learned, skilled movements. The desirability of externalist psychopathology is suggested through a look at theoretical and therapeutic virtues, again drawing on Wilson's work
|
Keywords | Externalism Metaphysics Mind Psychiatry Psychopathology Science |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
DOI | 10.1080/0951508021000006102 |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
Intelligence Without Representation.Rodney A. Brooks - 1991 - Artificial Intelligence 47 (1--3):139-159.
View all 8 references / Add more references
Citations of this work BETA
Out of Our Skulls: How the Extended Mind Thesis Can Extend Psychiatry.Ginger A. Hoffman - 2016 - Philosophical Psychology 29 (8):1160-1174.
Moral Responsibility: The Difference of Strawson, and the Difference It Should Make.Andrew Sneddon - 2005 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 8 (3):239-264.
The Depths and Shallows of Psychological Externalism.Andrew Sneddon - 2008 - Philosophical Studies 138 (3):393 - 408.
Similar books and articles
Value, Illness, and Failure of Action: Framework for a Philosophical Psychopathology of Delusions.K. William M. Fulford - 1994 - In George Graham & Lester D. Stephens (eds.), Philosophical Psychopathology. MIT Press.
Implications of Bohmian Quantum Ontology for Psychopathology.Paavo Pylkkänen - 2010 - Neuroquantology 8 (1):37-48.
Reasons and Causes in Philosophy and Psychopathology.Tim Thornton - 1997 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 4 (4):307-317.
Embodied Cognitive Science and its Implications for Psychopathology.Zoe Drayson - 2009 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 16 (4):329-340.
Psychopathology Divergent: Phenomenology and Empiricism.Richard Mullen - 2011 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 18 (2):157-161.
Self-Consciousness: An Integrative Approach From Philosophy, Psychopathology and the Neurosciences.Tilo Kircher & Anthony S. David - 2003 - In Tilo Kircher & Anthony S. David (eds.), The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry. Cambridge University Press. pp. 445-473.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2009-01-28
Total views
209 ( #55,017 of 2,507,667 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
2 ( #277,140 of 2,507,667 )
2009-01-28
Total views
209 ( #55,017 of 2,507,667 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
2 ( #277,140 of 2,507,667 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads