Andy Clark and His Critics

Andy Clark is a leading philosopher of cognitive science, whose work has had an extraordinary impact throughout philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and robotics. His monographs have led the way for new research programs in the philosophy of mind and cognition: Microcognition (1989) and Associative Engines (1993) introduced the philosophical community to connectionist research and the novel issues it raised; Being There (1997) showed the relevance of embodiment, dynamical systems theory, and minimal computation frameworks for the study of the mind; Natural Born Cyborgs (OUP 2003) presented an accessible development of embodied and embedded approaches to understanding human nature and cognition; Supersizing the Mind (OUP 2008) developed this yet further along with the famous "Extended Mind" hypothesis; and Surfing Uncertainty (OUP 2017) presents a framework for uniting perception, action, and the embodied mind.In Andy Clark and His Critics, a range of high-profile researchers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and empirical cognitive science, critically engage with Clark's work across the themes of: Extended, Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, and Affective Minds; Natural Born Cyborgs; and Perception, Action, and Prediction. Daniel Dennett provides a foreword on the significance of Clark's work, and Clark replies to each section of the book, thus advancing current literature with original contributions that will form the basis for new discussions, debates and directions in the discipline.

Foreword Daniel C. DennettList of ContributorsIntroduction Matteo Colombo, Liz Irvine & Mog StapletonPart 1: Extensions and AlterationsChapter 1: Extended Cognition and Extended Consciousness David ChalmersChapter 2: The Elusive Extended Mind: Extended information processing doesn't equal extended mindFred AdamsChapter 3: Clark on Language, Cognition, and Extended Cognition Kenneth AizawaChapter 4: Extended Mental Features Kathalin FarkasChapter 5: Extended Affectivity, Reconsidered Michelle MaieseChapter 6: Matters of the Flesh: The Role(s) of Body in Cognition Lawrence ShapiroChapter 7: Breaking the Waves: Beyond Parity and Complementarity in the Arguments for Extended CognitionMichael WheelerPart 2: On Being a CyborgChapter 8: Supercharged Apes versus Supersized Minds: Embracing Continuity while Accepting Difference Louise BarrettChapter 9: Building Inner Tools Robert GoldstoneChapter 10: When is a Mind Extended? David KirshChapter 11: The Archaeology of the Extended Mind Kim SterelnyPart 3: Embodied, Extended, but Predictive Too?Chapter 12: The World Well Gained: On the epistemic implications of ecological informationMichael Anderson & Anthony ChemeroChapter 13: Beyond the Desert Landscape Karl FristonChapter 14: Quick'n'lean or Slow and Rich? Andy Clark on predictive processing and embodied cognitionJakob HohwyChapter 15: How Radical is Predictive Processing? Nico Orlandi & Geoff LeeChapter 16: Ways of Mindmaking Jesse PrinzChapter 17: Being a Beast Machine: The origins of selfhood in control-oriented interoceptive inference Anil SethChapter 18: The Minds of Insects Barbara WebbReplies to CriticsIn Search of the Embodied, Extended, Enactive, Predictive (EEE-P) Mind Andy ClarkIndex