Hi,
does anyone know this book? I'd be pleased to hear form anyone who has
read it. My main question would be how far does it move on from what has
already been said by Bateson, Clark and others?
Boundaries of the Mind
The Individual in the Fragile Sciences
Robert A. Wilson
University of Alberta
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521544947
(ISBN-13: 9780521544948 | ISBN-10: 0521544947)
Where does the mind begin and end? Most philosophers and cognitive
scientists take the view that the mind is bounded by the skull or skin
of the individual. Robert Wilson, in this provocative and challenging
book, provides the foundations for the view that the mind extends beyond
the boundary of the individual. The approach adopted offers a unique
blend of traditional philosophical analysis, cognitive science, and the
history of psychology and the human sciences. A forthcoming companion
volume Genes and the Agents of Life will explore the theme in the
biological sciences. Written with verve and clarity, this ambitious book
will appeal to a broad swathe of professionals and students in
philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and the history of the
behavioural and human sciences.
Part I. Disciplining the Individual and the Mind: 1. The individual in
the fragile sciences. 2. Individuals, psychology and the mind; 3.
Nativism on my mind; Part II. Individualism and Externalism in the
Philosophy of Mind and the Cognitive Sciences: 4. Individualism:
philosophical foundations; 5. Metaphysics, mind and science: two views
of realization; 6. Context-sensitive realizations; 7. Representation,
computation and cognitive science; Part III. Thinking Through and Beyond
the Body: 8. The embedded mind and cognition; 9. Expanding
consciousness; 10. Intentionality and phenomenology; Part IV. The
Cognitive Metaphor in the Biological and Social Sciences: 11. Group
minds in historical perspective; 12. The group mind hypothesis in
contemporary biology and social science; Notes; References; Index.
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