John Sutton, 'Exograms and
Interdisciplinarity: history,
the extended mind, and the civilizing process'
-
(in press) John Sutton, 'Exograms
and Interdisciplinarity: history, the extended mind, and the civilizing
process', in Richard Menary (ed),
The
Extended Mind (MIT, October 2010).
This paper was originally completed in March 2005.
After various delays in the publication process, the book changed
publisher in 2008,
and this final revision was accepted October 2008. The book is now in
publication and should appear late 2009 or early 2010.
Here is the
current version. This is not dramatically revised from the 2005
paper, because that has been circulating widely and has been
discussed in the literature by both friends and
critics of the extended mind, so it didn't seem right to update too
much. Fuller responses
to the critics are on the way :)
(8 March 2005). Here is the
earlier (2005, unrevised) version in rtf.
Please email
me with
comments or suggestions.
Outline
1. Exograms, Interdisciplinarity, and the Cognitive Life of
Things
1.1 The Extended Mind
Hypothesis
1.2 EM and Interdisciplinarity: historical
cognitive science
1.3 Two Waves of EM Thinking
2. First-Wave EM: parity
2.1 The Parity Principle
2.2 Problems with Parity: active memory
2.3 Problems with Parity: interdisciplinarity and
individual differences
3. Cognition in the Globe
4. Second-Wave EM: complementarity
5. The Arts of Memory and the Civilizing Process
6. Conclusion: a note on explanation
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