TY - JOUR
AU - Chalmers, David
AB - Andy Clark & David Chalmers 1. Introduction Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? The question invites two standard replies. Some accept the boundaries of skin and skull, and say that what is outside the body is outside the mind. Others are impressed by arguments suggesting that the meaning of our words ‘just ain’t in the head’, and hold that this externalism about meaning carries over into an externalism about mind. We propose to pursue a third posi- tion. We advocate a very different sort of externalism: an active externalism, based on the active role of the environment in driving cogni- tive processes. 2. Extended cognition Consider three cases of human problem-solving: (1) A person sits in front of a computer screen which displays images of various two-dimensional geometric shapes and is asked to answer questions concerning the potential fit of such shapes into depicted ‘sockets’. To assess fit, the person must mentally rotate the shapes to align them with the sockets. (2) A person sits in front of a similar computer screen, but this time can choose either to physically rotate the image on the screen, by pressing a rotate button, or to 
TI - The Extended Mind
JF - Analysis
DO - 10.1093/analys/58.1.7
DA - 1998-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-extended-mind-0dk0i0CUJ9
SP - 7
EP - 19
VL - 58
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -