PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
Presenter: Joel Anderson (University of Utrecht)
Title: The Extended Will
Abstract: In this talk, I investigate the prospects for recruiting insights from work on embedded, distributed, scaffolded, enacted, situated, embodied, and/or extended cognition to the domain of the will. Focusing on the functional capacity to resist temptation and suppress impulse, I argue that there are aspects of our volitional make-up that can be instantiated at least partly in the world external to the skin-skull boundary of individual. I then consider the ethical implications of this for employing assistive technology to address self-regulation deficits.
Further information
We are a group of researchers from diverse backgrounds in the above-mentioned groups (and beyond) who aim to gain an interdisciplinary yet deep understanding of the threads that bind the human mind and the world. In particular, this seminar series focuses on the nature of cognition, metacognition and social cognition. We’ll be tackling questions such as, what does it mean to think? What does it mean to think about thinking? And, what does it mean to think about one’s own thinking versus thinking about the thinking of other people? Please come along!
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PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
Room 12 (Doorway 3), Medical School (Old Medical School), Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG