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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Extended mind"”.
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The architecture of the extended mind: towards a critical urban ecology
… nature, matter, organism, ecology, network, mind, emergence, system and dialectics – as they unfold across a wide range of disciplines, including architecture, cybernetics, Marxist theory, ecology and the cognitive sciences. Ultimately, this thesis suggests that critical urban ecology – the …
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The Nurture of Nature: Biology, Psychology and Culture
… accounts suppose an internalist model of the mind, and this model is neither justified nor useful. The extended mind hypothesis offers a different model of the mind whereby cognitive processes can be partially constituted by structures in the environment. I sketch an alternative account of …
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Functionalism and Strange Minds
… the functionalism thesis in philosophy of mind, seeking to expand, critique, and clarify sections of the arguement with a special attention made to the physical constraints on what constitutes a sufficient realizer, the difficulties in multiple realizability, and the interpretation therein. …
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Soundscape and the Experience of Positive Silence
… around the human experience of solitude, mindful awareness and distraction. This doctoral research draws upon the insights of these disciplines to inform both the artworks and thinking that cohered into the themes explored in this commentary. Solitary and shared silences characterised by …
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Extended cognition, dynamics, and algorithms. A turing machine based approach to the study of arithmetical skills
The fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science have been characterized, in the last few decades, by a growing interest for explanations of mind's activity in terms of interaction between brains, bodies and the world. Embodiment, embeddedness, situatededness are key words that most often can …
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Extended identities: The reducibility of non-categorical properties and their bearers
… and time, and so are complicated things, like minds and people, and other things defined by what they could or would do. That includes corkscrews and water soluble things. However, the complicated properties of these complicated things show that, very often, these things are either not quite …
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Critical Programming: Toward a Philosophy of Computing
… of the built environment, which is developing a mind of its own. If digital technologies have contributed to forming a dumbest generation and ushering in a robotic moment, we all have a stake in addressing this collective intelligence problem. While digital humanities continue to flourish and …
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Territory and history: the justification of detachment from the land as a stage in the development of human agency
The aim of this thesis is to research the ontology of human agency that informs the structure of most contemporary theories of territorial rights. Rather than establishing a new normative approach to the issue of the allocation of territories to subjects, my work focuses on a descriptive conceptual …
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Exploring the Metaphysics of Grief
… the Intimacy Constraint. An appeal to the extended mind is more fruitful, but makes our loved ones fungible, and fails to capture all paradigmatic cases. The answer to what makes grief utterances true lies beyond these resources.</p><p>In Chapter Three I introduce the notion of plural …
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Exploring The Metaphysics Of Grief
… the Intimacy Constraint. An appeal to the extended mind is more fruitful, but makes our loved ones fungible, and fails to capture all paradigmatic cases. The answer to what makes grief utterances true lies beyond these resources.</p><p>In Chapter Three I introduce the notion of plural …
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The DiY ['Do it yourself'] Ethos: A participatory culture of material engagement
… as a social phenomenon towards the idea of ‘extended agency’: agency which includes both human and material actants within the entangled assemblages of DiY practices and the material environment. When extended agency is applied in the three case studies, the initial question asked is: ‘How …