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Andy Clark is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, at Edinburgh University in Scotland. He is the author of Being There (1997), Mindware (2001), Natural-Born Cyborgs (Oxford, 2003), and Supersizing the Mind (Oxford, 2008). His interests vis mere include artificial intelligence, embodied cognition, robotics, and the predictive mind. In 2018, he was profiled in the New Yorker. vis mindre

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Mind and Morals: Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science (1996) — Redaktør — 39 eksemplarer

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Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings (2002) — Bidragyder — 289 eksemplarer
The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003) — Bidragyder — 230 eksemplarer
Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? (2002) — Bidragyder — 22 eksemplarer

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As difficult as this book was to read (for a non-scholar, such as myself), it presents extremely potent models that are rarely expounded elsewhere! I reference this text frequently in my job as a technology designer.
 
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quavmo | 2 andre anmeldelser | Jun 26, 2022 |
Clark builds on the (1998) extended mind thesis, incorporating additional evidence of the role of the body and external environment in cognitive processing. Clark stresses that this view doesn't discount traditional representation-based, internalist views of cognition, only widens the net to include the brain working in "soft assembled" partnership with the external world.

I struggled a bit with the later chapters which focus on addressing criticism of the extended mind approach and at times felt that there was some ?unproductive hair-splitting and language games going on, though by and large Clark is certainly systematic and seems to be very careful with his own choice of words.

The overall approach is that Clark is seeking a synthesis between "brainbound" views and radical embodied cognition, and I think he largely succeeds in finding the sweet spot.
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paulusm | 2 andre anmeldelser | Aug 12, 2021 |
One must bear in mind that this book was published in 2001, while its subject has made leaps and bounds (though perhaps not towards the goal it seeks). As an introductory text, I feel that Clark's prose finds the right median between the colloquial and the lofty. It's a great overview of the history of philosophy of mind and the major debates. For me, the most intriguing debate is the one that found its launching pad in Descartes back in the early seventeenth century: there is a dualism that represents the material body and the immaterial body; but this also presents a problem regarding how the two are linked in such as a way as to effect causality.

The book is very much Andy Clark's interpretation and thoughts of the field, i.e. it makes no pretensions toward objectivity (could it?), and he seeks to trace the trajectory of thoughts and experiments leading up to the goal of presenting "mindware" as explaining the mind with nothing outside of the material world. In this vein, the only section of the book I considered worthwhile was the second appendix, "Consciousness and the Meta-Hard Problem," though the thoughts are at the forefront of philosophy today. Apart from that, Clark does a nice job breaking down some of Daniel Dennett's more opaque theories, especially from the latter's book [b:Consciousness Explained|2069|Consciousness Explained|Daniel C. Dennett|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1386924714s/2069.jpg|1860288]--a book that I still regard with trepidation (I've only managed the first few pages several different times).

Having read a lot in the area of philosophy of mind and in neuroscience, I looked to this book to bring some coherence to all the schools of thought and the history thereof. In the end, I find myself continuing to lean more and more away from philosophy. For the goal presented in the problem of mind-body dualism and in the explanation of qualia, I really don't see a fruitful explanation coming from the dialectical approach of philosophy or even the analytical approach of logic; I look more towards neuroscience. Which, actually, brings up another point regarding science and philosophy.

More and more I'm starting to view philosophy as nothing more than an analogy factory--at least, as regards metaphysics. I've been reading and enjoying philosophy for a while, including a subscription to Philosophy Now, but lately, as compared to science books and my other subscription to Scientific American, I am getting impatient with philosophy. Yet I cannot completely abandon it. I've read many times that philosophy's proper place is to help think the right way about a thing, to clarify thinking, which is a laudable goal since even scientific phenomena must be explained in language at some point. So, I agree that there must be some intellectual agency governing how to clearly think about and express a given thing in language.

In addition to language, there is of course the branch of philosophy that deals with ethics. And, as scientific discovery progresses (perhaps especially in the field of AI) I can see where it would be as equally prudent to steep ourselves in clear ethics as in clear thought and language. But--hey!--good luck finding that holy grail! What doesn't start unending debates is an equation.

Well, unless we're talking about quantum mechanics, of course.
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chrisvia | Apr 29, 2021 |
Back in my other life as a philosophy student, this book was what got me interested in cognitive science. Clark was at Washington University at the time, and I had grand plans for driving to St. Louis and stalking him until he took me on as a grad student. Thankfully for my arrest record, this never happened. But I still think he's an important theorist--his work stands right at the gap between the meat-stuff and the mind-stuff. This book in particular, which looks at the way we use "off-board" computing--interacting with the world around us, then perceiving the results of that interaction--to augment the brain's own processing, has a lot of relevance to designing efficient robot manipulators.… (mere)
 
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