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13In Memoriam: Susan HurleyIn Lawrence Weiskrantz & Martin Davies (eds.), Frontiers of consciousness, Oxford University Press. pp. 2008. 2008.
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7 Is “mind” a scientific kind?In Philip R. Loockvane (ed.), The Nature of Concepts: Evolution, Structure, and Representation, Routledge. pp. 155. 1999.
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1Is language special? Some remarks on control, coding and coordinationLanguage Sciences 26 (6): 717-726. 2004.
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11How to Qualify for a Cognitive Upgrade: Executive Control, Glass Ceilings and the Limits of Simian SuccessIn David McFarland, Keith Stenning & Maggie McGonigle (eds.), The Complex Mind, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 197. 2012.
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1965How to Knit Your Own Markov BlanketPhilosophy and Predictive Processing. 2017.Hohwy (Hohwy 2016, Hohwy 2017) argues there is a tension between the free energy principle and leading depictions of mind as embodied, enactive, and extended (so-called ‘EEE1 cognition’). The tension is traced to the importance, in free energy formulations, of a conception of mind and agency that depends upon the presence of a ‘Markov blanket’ demarcating the agent from the surrounding world. In what follows I show that the Markov blanket considerations do not, in fact, lead to the kinds of tens…Read more
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293Global abductive inference and authoritative sources, or, how search engines can save cognitive scienceCognitive Science Quarterly 2 (2): 115-140. 2002.Kleinberg (1999) describes a novel procedure for efficient search in a dense hyper-linked environment, such as the world wide web. The procedure exploits information implicit in the links between pages so as to identify patterns of connectivity indicative of “authorative sources”. At a more general level, the trick is to use this second-order link-structure information to rapidly and cheaply identify the knowledge- structures most likely to be relevant given a specific input. I shall argue that …Read more
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262Finding the Mind: Book Symposium on Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (review)Philosophical Studies 152 (3). 2011.Finding the Mind Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11098-010-9598-9 Authors Andy Clark, Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AD Scotland, UK Journal Philosophical Studies Online ISSN 1573-0883 Print ISSN 0031-8116.
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1087An embodied cognitive science?Trends in Cognitive Sciences 3 (9): 345-351. 1999.The last ten years have seen an increasing interest, within cognitive science, in issues concerning the physical body, the local environment, and the complex interplay between neural systems and the wider world in which they function. --œPhysically embodied, environmentally embedded--� approaches thus loom large on the contemporary cognitive scientific scene. Yet many unanswered questions remain, and the shape of a genuinely embodied, embedded science of the mind is still unclear. I begin by ske…Read more
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135Embodied, embedded, and extended cognitionIn Keith Frankish & William Ramsey (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science, Cambridge University Press. pp. 275. 2012.
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112Extended cognition and epistemologyPhilosophical Explorations 15 (2). 2012.Philosophical Explorations, Volume 15, Issue 2, Page 87-90, June 2012
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462Embodiment and the philosophy of mindIn Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, Cambridge University Press. pp. 35-51. 1998.Cambridge University Press:1998) P. 35-52. To be reprinted in Alberto Peruzzi (ed) MIND
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Dealing in futures: Folk psychology and the role of representations in cognitive scienceIn Robert N. McCauley (ed.), The Churchlands and their critics, Blackwell. 1996.
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73Cyborgs UnpluggedIn Susan Schneider (ed.), Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 170. 2009.
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17Cognitive incrementalism: The big issueBehavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (4): 536-537. 2000.Neural organization raises, in an especially clear way, a major problem confronting contemporary cognitive science. The problem (the “big issue” of my title) is: What is the relation between the strategies used to solve basic problems of perception and action and those used to solve more abstract or “cognitive” problems? Is there a smooth, incremental route from what Arbib et al. call “instinctual schemas” to higher-level kinds of cognitive prowess? I argue that, despite some suggestive comments…Read more
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34How should linguistically formulated moral principles figure in an account of our moral understanding and practice?
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Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume Ii (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1999.This is the second of two volumes of essays on the ideas of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in artificial intelligence and computer science made him one of the seminal thinkers of the century. A distinguished international cast of contributors offer original investigations of key issues in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science, celebrating Turing's intellectual legacy in these fields. 'fascinating...we can all learn by reading these essays because they encourage us to explore …Read more
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234Coupling, constitution and the cognitive kind: A reply to Adams and AizawaIn Richard Menary (ed.), The Extended Mind, Mit Press. pp. 81-99. 2010.Adams and Aizawa, in a series of recent and forthcoming papers,, ) seek to refute, or perhaps merely to terminally embarrass, the friends of the extended mind. One such paper begins with the following illustration: "Question: Why did the pencil think that 2+2=4? Clark's Answer: Because it was coupled to the mathematician" Adams and Aizawa ms p.1 "That" the authors continue "about sums up what is wrong with Clark's extended mind hypothesis". The example of the pencil, they suggest, is just an esp…Read more
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137Coupling, constitution and the cognitive kindIn Richard Menary (ed.), The Extended Mind, Mit Press. 2010.Adams and Aizawa, in a series of recent and forthcoming papers ((2001), (In Press), (This Volume)) seek to refute, or perhaps merely to terminally embarrass, the friends of the extended mind. One such paper begins with the following illustration: "Question: Why did the pencil think that 2+2=4? Clark's Answer: Because it was coupled to the mathematician" Adams and Aizawa (this volume) ms p.1 "That" the authors continue "about sums up what is wrong with Clark's extended mind hypothesis". The examp…Read more
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2Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 2 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1996.This is the second of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, who pioneered computing theory in the middle of this century. A distinguished international cast of contributors offer original investigations of key theories in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science, celebrating Turing's intellectual legacy in these fields. All essays are specially written for this volume.
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3Cognitive Architectures in Artificial Intelligence: The Evolution of Research Programs (edited book)Routledge. 1998.First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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221Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together AgainMIT Press. 1981.In treating cognition as problem solving, Andy Clark suggests, we may often abstract too far from the very body and world in which our brains evolved to guide...
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64Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together AgainMIT Press. 1981.In Being There, Andy Clark weaves these several threads into a pleasing whole and goes on to address foundational questions concerning the new tools and..
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95Beyond the flesh: Some lessons from a Mole cricketArtificial Life 11 (1-2): 233-44. 2005.What do linguistic symbols do for minds like ours, and how (if at all) can basic embodied, dynamical and situated approaches do justice to high-level human thought and reason? These two questions are best addressed together, since our answers to the first may inform the second. The key move in ‘scaling-up’ simple embodied cognitive science is, I argue, to take very seriously the potent role of human-built structures in transforming the spaces of human learning and reason. In particular, in this …Read more
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235Where brain, body, and world collideCognitive Systems Research 1 (1): 5--17. 1999.--œWhere Brain, Body, and World Collide--� reprinted by permission of Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from the issue entitled, --œThe Brain,--� Spring 1998, Vol. 127, No. 2
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150Are we predictive engines? Perils, prospects, and the puzzle of the porous perceiverBehavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (3): 233-253. 2013.The target article sketched and explored a mechanism (action-oriented predictive processing) most plausibly associated with core forms of cortical processing. In assessing the attractions and pitfalls of the proposal we should keep that element distinct from larger, though interlocking, issues concerning the nature of adaptive organization in general
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63Author's reply to symposium on Natural-Born CyborgsMetascience. 2006.Thought happens. Here I sit, sipping coffee, scribbling on paper, accessing files, reading and re-reading those four wonderful, challenging, yet immaculately constructive reviews. And somewhere, and to my eternal surprise, thought happens. But where, amidst the whirl of organization, should we locate the cognitive process? One possibility is that everything worth counting as (all or part) of any genuinely cognitive process hereabouts is firmly located inside the head, safe behind the ancient for…Read more
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