Mon, February 3, 2014
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
347 University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall
The Consilience Project
In association with
The Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences
& The Department of Philosophy
presents
Anthony Chemero
University of Cincinnati
The End of the Debate Over Extended Cognition
One of the more lively current debates in philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of mind is over the possibility of extended cognition. Recently, though, this debate has hit a dead end, with proponents and opponents agreeing that whether cognition is sometimes extended is an empirical matter, but not knowing what an empirical demonstration of extended cognition would look like. In this talk, I argue that extended cognition has been empirically demonstrated repeatedly in the lab. Given this, the debate over extended cognition should be over.