Building Minds Together
Devin Sanchez Curry, Louise Daoust
August 21, 2026 DOI: 10.4324/9781003483632-25 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that the philosophy of mind's history is a series of recipes for building minds, which typically overlook social and group dynamics; proposes that cognition is fundamentally social, and explores what this means for philosophy and cognitive science. |
Abstract
Javier Gomez-Lavin suggests that the history of the philosophy of mind is well understood as a history of attempts to provide recipes for building minds. But Gomez-Lavin worries that almost all of these recipes share a common flaw: they focus too much on the individual mind, and neglect the ways in which other people (and group dynamics) shape how minds work. In their response, Tim Elmo Feiten and Anthony Chemero explore what it would mean for philosophers and cognitive scientists to embrace Gomez-Lavin’s suggestion that cognition is a fundamentally social phenomenon.