Extended cognition theorists claim that the definition of cognition can be extended to include not only the brain, but also the body and environment. In a series of works, Mark Rowlands has envisioned ...

The Credit Theory of Knowledge (CTK)—as expressed by such figures as John Greco, Wayne Riggs, and Ernest Sosa—holds that knowing that p implies deserving epistemic credit for truly believing that p.

“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 product of brain ...

To me, it feels like a new type of cognitive process is afoot. It's certainly there, but I'm not sure where it lives or even who can claim ownership. The first time it happens, you might not even ...

Where does the mind end and the world begin? Is the mind locked inside its skull, sealed in with skin, or does it expand outward, merging with things and places and other minds that it thinks with?

Earlier this summer, science writer Annie Murphy Paul released a book built around a fairly radical idea: The way we think about thinking is flawed, inasmuch as we believe that it happens almost ...

Millions of years ago, a few spiders abandoned the kind of round webs that the word “spiderweb” calls to mind and started to focus on a new strategy. Before, they would wait for prey to become ...