IIUSS Philosophy Seminars - Spring 2025
Philosophy of Mind
Linguistics & Philosophy IUSS Center
IUSS Philosophy Seminar – Spring 2025
Philosophy of Mind
Linguistics & Philosophy IUSS Center
Tuesday, May 13, 2.00-4.00pm CEST
Fabio Patrone (University of Padua)
From Extended Minds to Extended Persons
Abstract:
What if our mind is not confined inside the boundaries of the skull but is something that spreads into the world? Does the fact that our mind extends into the environment, as Clark & Chalmers (1998) argue, impact personal identity? This paper explores the consequences of the Extended Mind Thesis (EM) on personal identity, mainly focusing on how an extended mind might lead to what I call an "extended person". We can interpret the Extended Person Thesis (henceforth, EP) in two ways. We can consider persons "extended" when the properties constituting their personhood are exemplified (either partially or fully) by something outside themselves ("Weak Extended Person Thesis", WEP). Alternatively, a stronger position holds that persons are extended when parts beyond the physical boundaries constitute them. This view is the "Strong Extended Person Thesis" (SEP). I argue that SEP follows from EM.
In-person venue: Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia Palazzo del Broletto, Piazza della Vittoria 15 27100 Pavia, Italy Room 1.17
Virtual venue: https://iusspavia.zoom.us/my/br.aula1.17
Funded by: PRIN 2022 PNRR Higher-Order Perceivable Properties (HOPP)
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