Beyond the extended mind: new arguments for extensive enactivism
Synthese March 1, 2025 Lorena Sganzerla, Daniel D. Hutto, Michael D. Kirchhoff 5 citations
The extended mind thesis holds that cognitive processes can extend beyond the brain to include parts of the body and environment under certain conditions. This paper revives and clarifies the commitments of Radical Enactivism's Extensive Enactivism, compares it to related frameworks like embodied and distributed cognition, and provides new arguments for preferring it over other positions in the extended-distributed-enactive family.