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K. Vold

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Overcoming Deadlock: Scientific and Ethical Reasons to Embrace the Extended Mind Thesis

December 25, 2018 K. Vold

The extended mind thesis maintains that while minds may be centrallylocated in one’s brain-and-body, they are sometimes partly constitutedby tools in our environment. Critics argue that we have no reason tomove from the claim that cognition is embedded in the environment tothe stronger claim that cognition can be constituted by the environment.I will argue that there are normative reasons, both...