What is it about?
The old label theory of language: that a word is a verbal label stuck on a real thing. Shows how that old theory just doesn't work--and how Andy Clark still perpetuates it, in the midst of his excellent challenges to the rest of the thinking that goes along with it.
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Why is it important?
This contribution to the EMT (extended-mind thesis) debate begins with social affect-becoming-conation, and THEN makes its way to cognition--which is where almost everyone else arguing about EMT starts.
Perspectives
This is a romp through the EMT debate between "externalists" (extended/embedded/enactive cognition) and their anti-externalist opponents (thought stays inside the brainpan), engaging Clark&Chalmers and Adams&Aizawa and the rest of the gang(s), but also dragging in some of my personal favorites: Hegel, Peirce, Oscar Wilde ("The Decay of Lying" as driven by Liar Paradox Monism), Mikhail Bakhtin, and Jacques Derrida.
Professor Douglas J. Robinson
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
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This page is a summary of: Language as Cognitive Labels, August 2013, The MIT Press,
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262019477.003.0003.
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