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Externalism About the Mind (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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In the philosophy of mind, externalism is the view that what is going on in an individual’s mind is not (entirely) determined by what is going on inside her body, including her brain. Externalism comes in two principal forms: externalism about mental content and externalism about the vehicles or bearers of that content. The latter form of externalism is commonly known as the extended mind. At stake are important issues concerning the nature of the mind and its relation to the world, both natural and social. In the philosophy of mind, externalism is the view that what is going on inside an individual’s body does not always, on its own, fix what is going on inside that individual’s mind. The mind, in this sense, simply denotes the totality of mental occurrences undergone by an individual at any given time. The body, in this sense, delineates the biological boundaries of the individual which, in creatures such as us, coincide with the individual’s skin and, of course, includes the brain,

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