Toward a Mechanistic Account of Extended Cognition
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2022
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Taylor & Francis
Abstract
There have been a number of attempts to apply mechanism related concepts to the notion of extended cognition. Such
accounts appeal to the idea that extended cognitive routines
are realized by mechanisms that transcend some salient
border or boundary. The present paper describes some of
the challenges confronting the effort to develop
a mechanistic account of extended cognition. In particular,
it describes five problems that must be resolved if we are to
make sense of the idea that extended cognition can be
understood via an appeal to extended mechanisms. These
problems are intended to guide the philosophical effort to
develop a mechanistic account of extended cognition
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Extended cognition; constitutive relevance; mechanism; active externalism; mechanistic explanation