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According to the Extended Mind Thesis, the mind can extend so as to include parts of the environment, such as notes in a notebook. Internalists about the mind, according to whom the mind remains confined to the brain or body, have forcefully criticized the thesis. In this paper, a quite different cr...

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Published in:Tijdschrift voor filosofie 2012-03, Vol.74 (1), p.103-127
Main Authors: Myin, Erik, Zahidi, Karim
Format: Article
Language:dut
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Summary:According to the Extended Mind Thesis, the mind can extend so as to include parts of the environment, such as notes in a notebook. Internalists about the mind, according to whom the mind remains confined to the brain or body, have forcefully criticized the thesis. In this paper, a quite different critique of the Extended Mind will be offered: rather than departing too much from internalism, as has been suggested, this thesis stays too closely bound to it. Referring to memory, it will be argued that memory is only extendable if a questionable internalist picture of memory is presupposed. An alternative picture of memory is proposed which breaks more radically with internalism, and the idea of memory and mind as Extensive rather than as Extended, is proposed.
ISSN:1370-575X