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| Date: | 23.11.2009 to 25.11.2009 |
| Location: | Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung
der Universität Bielefeld
Wellenberg 1
33615 Bielefeld Bielefeld Deutschland |
| Keywords: | Eugenics/Enhancement - Neuroscience |
| Details: | At least since the late nineties the cognitive neurosciences have been experiencing a programmatic and paradigmatic thrust, which manifests itself in the key words 'embodiment', 'situated cognition' and 'dynamicism'. At the core of this development is the insight that cognitive processes cannot be isolated from the physical constraints of the cognitive system, its situatedness and its dynamic interaction with the environment. The idea that cognitive processes are no longer simply characterized at an abstract, purely information-processing level blurs gradually also the intuitively plausible boundary between the "inside" and "outside" of a cognitive system, between what's in the "mind" and what supposedly takes place outside the boundaries of the mind in the body and the environment. A growing number of authors argues that our traditional views about what cognitive processes are and where they take place must be revised insofar as the nature of such processes is substantially constituted by body and environment. Cognitive systems are not limited to the local processing system, the neural machinery, but extend across its traditionally conceived boundary into the surroundings, in external cognitive tools and into social communities. This "Extended Mind Thesis" (EMT) became particularly known by a paper of Andy Clark and David Chalmers (1998) and has been defended and developed most prominently by Clark since then. Meanwhile other EMT-supporters like Susan Hurley, Richard Menary, Mark Rowlands, Michael Wheeler and Robert Wilson but also critics have raised their voice, and a fruitful debate about the validity and scope of EMT has emerged both within the empirical cognitive and neurosciences as well as in the philosophy of mind. In the German-speaking community, however, little attention has been paid so far to EMT, neither from the philosophical nor the empirical perspective. It is one goal of the workshop to fill this gap, but also to explore the prospects of the empirical support of EMT by clarifying to which extent researchers from the cognitive and neurosciences in their everyday work and practice already implicitly assume extended cognition ideas or even actively operate with them. |
| Organizer: | Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung der Universität Bielefeld |
| Contact: | Marina Hoffmann Address: Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung der Universität Bielefeld Wellenberg 1 33615 Bielefeld Tel: +49 - (0)521 - 1 06 27 68 Fax: +49 - (0)521 - 1 06 60 24 Email: Marina.Hoffmann@uni-bielefeld.de |
| Webpage: | http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/philosophie/extendedmind/ |
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