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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