CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
The Extended Mind — Analysis
- Key
- clark-chalmers-1998-extended-mind
- Authors
- Clark, Andy; Chalmers, David J.
- Issued
- 1998-1
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- Analysis
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 7-19
Raw CSL JSON
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"DOI": "10.1093/analys/58.1.7",
"URL": "https://consc.net/papers/extended.html",
"page": "7-19",
"type": "article-journal",
"issue": "1",
"title": "The Extended Mind",
"author": [
{
"given": "Andy",
"family": "Clark"
},
{
"given": "David J.",
"family": "Chalmers"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
1998,
1
]
]
},
"volume": "58",
"container-title": "Analysis"
}
Claims
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Clark and Chalmers propose 'active externalism', the view that the mind, or what realizes it, is not confined to the brain or skin but can include reliably coupled external resources in the cognitive system.
"We advocate a very different sort of externalism: an active externalism, based on the active role of the environment in driving cognitive processes."
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Clark and Chalmers argue that, in the case of Otto and his notebook compared with Inga and her biological memory, the notebook plays the same role for Otto that biological memory plays for Inga, so its contents qualify as Otto's beliefs.
"Otto walked to 53rd Street because he wanted to go to the museum and he believed the museum was on 53rd Street... For in relevant respects the cases are entirely analogous: the notebook plays for Otto the same role that memory plays for Inga."
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