Cognitive systems and the extended mind / Robert D. Rupert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rupert, Robert D.

Series:

Philosophy of mind series

Philosophy of mind

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition.

Cognitive science.

Physical Description:

xiii, 268 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Mind, the Computer, and the Alternatives 1

1.1 The Mind as Computer 1

1.2 Alternatives: The Varieties of Situated Cognition 3

1.3 Looking Ahead 7

1.4 Strategy and Methods 8

1.5 The Book's Conclusions 12

Part I The Thinking Organism

2 Principles of Demarcation 15

2.1 The Challenge of Demarcation 16

2.2 Extension-Friendly Principles of Demarcation 19

2.3 The Parity Principle 29

2.4 Conclusion 35

3 Cognitive Systems and Demarcation 37

3.1 The Success of Cognitive Psychology 38

3.2 The Systems-Based View 41

3.3 Two Arguments against the Extended View 44

3.4 Extension-Friendly Rejoinders 47

3.5 The No-Self View 50

4 Realization and Extended Cognition 59

4.1 The Argument from Empirical Success and Methodology, Restated 59

4.2 Extended Cognition and Realization 61

4.3 Functionalism and the Causal Constraint on Realization 63

4.4 The Argument from Causal Interaction 68

4.5 Wide Realization, Total Realization, and Causal Powers 76

4.6 Cleaning Up 82

Part II Arguments for the Extended View

5 Functionalism and Natural Kinds 89

5.1 The Functionalist Argument 89

5.2 The Natural-Kinds Argument 96

5.3 The Empirical Response 99

5.4 The Pragmatic Turn 105

6 Developmental Systems Theory and the Scaffolding of Language 109

6.1 Causal Spread and Complementary Role 110

6.2 A Case of Nontrivial Causal Spread: Developmental Systems Theory 113

6.3 The Most Powerful Transformation: Language-Learning 118

7 Dynamical Systems Theory 131

7.1 Dynamical Systems Theory and Cognitive Science 131

7.2 Dynamical Systems and Extended Cognition: General Patterns of Argument 134

7.3 Six Kinds of Dynamical-Systems-Based Model 137

7.4 Evolution, Context-Dependence, and Epistemic Dependence 149

8 The Experience of Extension and the Extension of Experience 155

8.1 Cognitive Science and the In-Key Constraint 155

8.2 The Phenomenology of Smooth Coping 159

8.3 The Sense of One's Own Location 164

8.4 Control-Based Arguments 167

8.5 Control Simpliciter 169

8.6 Extended Cognition and Extended Experience 170

Part III The Embedded and Embodied Mind

9 Embedded Cognition and Computation 179

9.1 The Embedded Approach 180

9.2 Computation, Implementation, and Explicitly Encoded Rules 183

9.3 Computationalism in Principle and Computationalism in Practice 187

9.4 Timing, Computationalism, and Dynamical Systems Theory 188

9.5 Conclusion 190

10 Embedded Cognition and Mental Representation 193

10.1 What Is Special about Embedded Representations? 194

10.2 Atomic Affordance Representations 201

10.3 Embedded Models and External Content 204

10.4 Innate Representations and the Inflexibility Objection 209

10.5 Conclusion 215

11 The Embodied View 217

11.1 Preliminaries: Where the Disagreement Is Not 218

11.2 The Constraint Thesis 226

11.3 The Content Thesis 226

11.4 Vehicles, Realizers, and Apportioning Explanation 231

11.5 The Symbol-Grounding Problem 236

12 Summary and Conclusion 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195379457

0195379454

OCLC:

298324251