• Preface


• 1.: Introduction: The Mind, the Computer, and the Alternatives


• Part I: The Thinking Organism


• 2.: Principles of Demarcation


• 3.: Cognitive Systems and Demarcation


• 4.: Realization and Extended Cognition


• Part II. Arguments for the Extended View


• 5.: Functionalism and Natural Kinds


• 6.: Developmental Systems Theory and the Scaffolding of Language


• 7.: Dynamical Systems Theory


• 8.: The Experience of Extension and the Extension of Experience


• Part III. The Embedded and Embodied Mind


• 9.: Embedded Cognition and Computation


• 10.: Embedded Cognition and Mental Representation


• 11.: The Embodied View


• 12.: Summary and Conclusion


• Works Cited

Robert D. Rupert is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS AND THE EXTENDED MIND surveys philosophical issues raised by the situated movement in cognitive science, that is, the treatment of cognitive phenomena as the joint products of brain, body, and environment.