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516Meaning making and the mind of the externalistIn Richard Menary (ed.), The Extended Mind, Mit Press. pp. 167--188. 2010.This paper attempts to do two things. First, it recounts the problem of intentionality, as it has typically been conceptualized, and argues that it needs to be reconceptualized in light of the radical form of externalism most commonly referred to as the extended mind thesis. Second, it provides an explicit, novel argument for that thesis, what I call the argument from meaning making, and offers some defense of that argument. This second task occupies the core of the paper, and in completing it I…Read more
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743How to situate cognition: Letting nature take its courseIn Murat Aydede & P. Robbins (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition, Cambridge University Press. pp. 55--77. 2009.1. The Situation in Cognition 2. Situated Cognition: A Potted Recent History 3. Extensions in Biology, Computation, and Cognition 4. Articulating the Idea of Cognitive Extension 5. Are Some Resources Intrinsically Non-Cognitive? 6. Is Cognition Extended or Only Embedded? 7. Letting Nature Take Its Course
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310The primal path to kinship: A critical review of Bernard chapais, primeval kinship: How pair-bonding gave birth to human society (review)Biology and Philosophy 25 (1): 111-123. 2010.This is a critical discussion of Bernard Chapais' Primeval Kinship (Harvard, 2008).
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346A puzzle about material constitution and how to solve it: Enriching constitution views in metaphysicsPhilosophers' Imprint 7 1-20. 2007.Are materially constituted entities, such as statues and glasses of liquid, something more than their material constituents? The puzzle that frames this paper stems from conflicting answers to this question. At the core of the paper is a distinctive way of thinking about material constitution that posits two concepts of constitution, compositional and ampliative constitution, with the bulk of the discussion devoted to developing distinct analyses for these concepts. Distinguishing these concepts…Read more
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