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Overextending the Mind By Brie Gertler Penultimate draft for Arguing about the Mind, Gertler and Shapiro, eds. Clark and Chalmers argue that the mind is extended – that is, its boundary lies beyond the skin. (Clark and Chalmers 1998, reprinted as Chapter 15 of this volume.1 For brevity, I will refer to the authors as ‘C&C’.) In this essay, I will criticize this conclusion. However, I will also defend some of the more controversial elements of C&C’s argument. I reject their conclusion because I think that their argument…

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