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  • Does the World Leak into the Mind? Active Externalism, "Internalism" and Epistemology

    Author(s)
    Dartnall, Terence
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    Dartnall, Terence H.
    Year published
    2005
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    One of the arguments for active externalism (also known as the 'extended mind thesis') is that if a process counts as cognitive when it is performed in the head, it should also count as cognitive when it is performed in the world. Consequently, mind extends into the world. I argue for a corollary: We sometimes perform actions in our heads that we usually perform in the world, so that the world leaks into the mind. I call this internalism'. Internalism has epistemological implications: if a process gives us an empirical discovery when it is performed in the world it will also give us an empirical discovery when it is ...
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    One of the arguments for active externalism (also known as the 'extended mind thesis') is that if a process counts as cognitive when it is performed in the head, it should also count as cognitive when it is performed in the world. Consequently, mind extends into the world. I argue for a corollary: We sometimes perform actions in our heads that we usually perform in the world, so that the world leaks into the mind. I call this internalism'. Internalism has epistemological implications: if a process gives us an empirical discovery when it is performed in the world it will also give us an empirical discovery when it is performed in the head. I look at a simple example that highlights this implication. I then explore the relationship between internalism and active externalism in more detail and conclude by comparing internalism with mental modelling.'
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    Journal Title
    Cognitive Science: a multidisciplinary journal
    Volume
    29
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog2901_6
    Subject
    Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
    Psychology
    Cognitive Sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/4268
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