Cognitive systems and the extended mind

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Cognitive systems and the extended mind

Statement of responsibility

Robert D. Rupert

Creator

• Rupert, Robert D

Subject

• Cognition
• Cognitive Science
• Cognitive science
• Theory of Mind

Language

eng

Summary

"Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind surveys philosophical issues raised by the situated movement in cognitive science, that is, the treatment of cognitive phenomena as the joint product of brain, body, and environment. The book focuses primarily on the hypothesis of extended cognition, which asserts that human cognitive processes literally comprise elements beyond the boundary of the human organism. Rupert argues that the only plausible way in which to demarcate cognition is systems-based: cognitive states or processes are the states of the integrated set of mechanisms and capacities that contribute causally and distinctively to the production of cognitive phenomena - for example, language use, memory, decision-making, theory construction, and, more important, the associated forms of behavior." "Rupert argues that this integrated system is most likely to appear within the boundary of the human organism. He argues that the systems-based view explains the existing successes of cognitive psychology and cognate fields in a way that extended conceptions of cognition do not, and that once the systems-based view has been adopted, it is especially clear how extant arguments in support of the extended view go wrong." "Cognitive Systems also examines further aspects of the situated program in cognitive science, including the embedded and embodied approaches to cognition. Rupert asks to what extent the plausible incarnations of these situated views depart from orthodox, computational cognitive science."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Philosophy of mind series

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 121
• 153

Index

index present

LC call number

BF311

LC item number

.R864 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Philosophy of mind