Matters of the Flesh
Matters of the Flesh
The Role(s) of Body in Cognition
Andy Clark has defended a view of the body’s relationship to the mind that he calls the Larger Mechanism Story (LMS). At the same time, he has criticized an alternative account, the Special Contribution Story (SC). After first clarifying the commitments of these two stories, I argue that Clark’s favored LMS is of less psychological interest than SC, and that SC offers an interesting and viable research program.
Keywords: body-specificity hypothesis, cognition, computationalism, embodied cognition, extended mind, functionalism, David Marr
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