Andy Clark and His Critics

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Andy Clark is a leading philosopher of cognitive science, whose work has had an extraordinary impact throughout philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and robotics. His monographs have led the way for new research programs in the philosophy of mind and cognition:Microcognition(1989) andAssociative Engines(1993) introduced the philosophical community to connectionist research and the novel issues it raised;Being There(1997) showed the relevance of embodiment, dynamical systems theory, and minimal computation frameworks for the study of the mind;Natural Born Cyborgs(OUP 2003) presented an accessible development of embodied and embedded approaches to understanding human nature and cognition;Supersizing the Mind(OUP 2008) developed this yet further along with the famous "Extended Mind" hypothesis; andSurfing Uncertainty(OUP 2017) presents a framework for uniting perception, action, and the embodied mind. InAndy Clark and His Critics, a range of high-profile researchers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and empirical cognitive science, critically engage with Clark's work across the themes of: Extended, Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, and Affective Minds; Natural Born Cyborgs; and Perception, Action, and Prediction. Daniel Dennett provides a foreword on the significance of Clark's work, and Clark replies to each section of the book, thus advancing current literature with original contributions that will form the basis for new discussions, debates and directions in the discipline. CONTENT FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONTRIBUTORS Introduction PART 1 EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS 1 Extended Cognition and Extended Consciousness 2 The Elusive Extended Mind- Extended Information Processing Doesn’t Equal Extended Mind 3 Clark on Language, Cognitionand Extended Cognition 4 Extended Mental Features 5 Extended Affectivity, Reconsidered 6 Matters of the Flesh- The Role(s) of Body in Cognition 7 Breaking the Waves- Beyond Parity and Complementarity in the Arguments for Extended Cognition PART 2 ON BEING A CYBORG 8 Supercharged Apes versus Super- Sized Minds- Embracing Continuity While Accepting Difference 9 Building Inner Tools 10 When Is a Mind Extended? 11 The Archaeology of the Extended Mind PART 3 EMBODIED, EXTENDED, BUT PREDICTIVE TOO? 12 The World Well Gained- On the Epistemic Implications of Ecological Information 13 Beyond the Desert Landscape 14 Quick’n’Lean or Slow and Rich? Andy Clark on Predictive Processing and Embodied Cognition 15 How Radical Is Predictive Processing? 16 Ways of Mindmaking 17 Being a Beast Machine- The Origins of Selfhood in Control- Oriented Interoceptive Inference 18 The Minds of Insects Replies to Critics- In Search of the Embodied, Extended, Enactive, Predictive (EEE- P) Mind