TY - JOUR
T1 - The coupling-constitution fallacy revisited
AU - Aizawa, Kenneth
N1 - Funding Information: Thanks to an anonymous referee for Cognitive Systems Research . Unfortunately, the most interesting and significant comments and suggestions could not be adequately addressed within this paper. This paper was completed while the author was on sabbatical leave from Centenary College of Louisiana and supported by a sabbatical matching grant through the Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars Program administered by the Louisiana Board of Regents. 17
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - The hypothesis of extended cognition maintains that cognitive processes sometimes span the brain, body, and world. One of the most prominent types of arguments for this hypothesis begins with observations of the role of certain sorts of bodily and environmental influences on cognitive processes, then concludes that these bodily and environmental influences are themselves cognitive processes. This paper will argue that, while it is widely appreciated that the simplest versions of these " coupling arguments" are fallacious, the advocates of extended cognition still seem to underestimate how prevalent even the simplest forms are in the literature, why they are so pervasive, and how these fallacious arguments might be avoided by greater attention to a plausible theory of what distinguishes cognitive processes from non-cognitive processes.
AB - The hypothesis of extended cognition maintains that cognitive processes sometimes span the brain, body, and world. One of the most prominent types of arguments for this hypothesis begins with observations of the role of certain sorts of bodily and environmental influences on cognitive processes, then concludes that these bodily and environmental influences are themselves cognitive processes. This paper will argue that, while it is widely appreciated that the simplest versions of these " coupling arguments" are fallacious, the advocates of extended cognition still seem to underestimate how prevalent even the simplest forms are in the literature, why they are so pervasive, and how these fallacious arguments might be avoided by greater attention to a plausible theory of what distinguishes cognitive processes from non-cognitive processes.
KW - Coupling-constitution fallacy
KW - Extended cognition
KW - Mark of the cognitive
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77955586468
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cogsys.2010.07.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cogsys.2010.07.001
M3 - Article
SN - 1389-0417
VL - 11
SP - 332
EP - 342
JO - Cognitive Systems Research
JF - Cognitive Systems Research
IS - 4
ER -