The philosopher Andy Clark has explored the relationship between cognition and environment through an extended meditation upon the predicament of the mole cricket. These creatures attract their mates through song, but their minute size renders them incapable of producing sounds loud enough to travel. However, they solve this problem environmentally: by creating underground burrows that greatly...
Spatial environments constitute a key component of our cognitive ecologies, helping to configure the form of religious worship, directing the attention of worshipers and providing physical shape to the construction and transmission of religious forms. This chapter applies Extended Mind theory to aspects of early modern English religion within the context of the parish church in order to deepen...