Extended Vision

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Wilson, Robert A.

• Vision constitutes an interesting domain, or range of domains, for debate over the extended mind thesis: the idea that minds extend physically beyond the boundaries of the body. In part this is because vision (and visual experience more particularly) are sometimes presented as a kind of line in the sand for what we might call externalist creep about the mind: once all reasonable concessions have been made to externalists about the mind, visual experience marks a line beyond which lies a safe haven for individualists. This chapter puts a little more pressure on such a view of visual experience, and offers a more constructive, positive argument in defence of the idea of extended vision.

• Date created

  2010

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Vision
  • Extended Mind Thesis
  • Visual Experience
  • Extended Mind

• Type of Item

  Chapter

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3SN01J9G

• License

  © 2010 Oxford University Press. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press (https://global.oup.com/academic/rights/).