Just how far can externalism go? In this exciting new book Ruth Millikan explores a radically externalist treatment of empirical concepts. For the last thirty years philosophy of mind’s ties to meaning internalism have been loosened. The theory of content has swung uncomfortably on its moorings in a fickle current, straining against opposing ties to mind and world. In this book Millikan casts c...

The recent literature on the theory of knowledge has taken a distinctive turn by focusing on the role of the cognitive and intellectual virtues in the acquisition of knowledge. The main contours and motivations for such virtue-theoretic accounts of knowledge are here sketched and it is argued that virtue epistemology in its most plausible form can be regarded as a refined form of reliabilism, a...

In the recent twenty-year retrospective issue of Animal Behavior and Cognition, Povinelli Henley (2020) argue that a host comparative studies into “complex cognition” suffer, fatally, from theoretical confusion. To rectify problem, they following challenge: alongside specifications higher-order capacity to be tested, provide hypotheses mechanism(s) necessary implement it. They spearhead this ef...

The history of technology, as a discipline, supports alternate points of view termed internalist and externalist, which terms highlight an approximately similar division in points of view within HCI. Conventional HCI is externalist, rightly concerned with human-centered issues; but externalism risks ignoring important internalist issues. A successful human-computer system is better if it is suc...

This paper outlines a radical version of phenomenal vehicle externalism dubbed “The Spread Mind” which suggests that both the content and the vehicles of phenomenal experience are identical to a process beginning in the environment and ending in the cortex. In seven conceptual steps, the Spread Mind outlines a counterintuitive yet logically possible hypothesis – namely that the physical underpi...

Moreover, when we look still more closely at the life bush, examining in detail the various lineages that form the littlest twigs (the species), we see the same pattern over again. The vast majority of individual animals and plants forming these various lineages didn't make it. The twigs are largely made of fuzz--of myriad little lives that broke off before reproduction. To a first approximatio...

the present study has a cognitive approach to empathy and character engagement in cinema. in discussing how through empathy and engagement with real and fictional characters, we extend our minds and enhance our cognitive abilities, the present paper studies bahram tavakkoli’s wandering in the fog (2010), to show how andy clark and david chalmers’s idea of the extended mind as joined with murray...

Qualia internalism is the thesis that qualia are intrinsic to their subjects: the experiences of intrinsic duplicates (in the same or different metaphysically possible worlds) have the same qualia. Content externalism is the thesis that mental representation is an extrinsic matter, partly depending on what happens outside the head. Intentionalism (or representationalism) comes in strong and wea...