期刊名称：Avant : Journal of Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard
印刷版ISSN：2082-7598
电子版ISSN：2082-6710
出版年度：2012
卷号：III
期号：1
出版社：Centre for Philosophical Research
摘要：For centuries, it was believed that if the mind has a spatial location at all (contra Descartes), then it must be located within the confines of the body, or skull to be more exact. The extended mind hypothesis (HEC) proposed by Clark and Chalmers (1998) in their now classic paper has challenged this idea. These authors noted that some external objects can be utilized in such a way that they can be seen as exten-sions of the mind itself, thus (purportedly) showing that some cognitive processing has an extent that go es beyond the boundaries of the brain and the body. In other words, cognition can happen and, with the use of proper cognitive artifacts (which category could, according to Clark and Chalmers, include something as mundane as a simple pen and notebook), does happen outside the head/body. Due to its ori-ginality and controversial nature, this thesis has been challenged by some re-searchers, but also embraced, further developed and reinterpreted by others
