Musil in a loop: the other condition and the extended mind
Rivista di Estetica March 6, 2020 Elvira Di Bona, Stefano Ercolino
In this paper, we propose a reading of Robert Musil’s controversial notion of the “other condition” in light of the basic features of the philosophical doctrine of externalism, as formulated in the classical account of the extended mind proposed by Andy Clark and David Chalmers (1998). Our reading is not meant to exhaust the complexity and polysemy of the idea of the other condition, but merely...