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DEWEY ON EXTENDED COGNITION AND EPISTEMOLOGY
Author(s) -
Vaesen Krist
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
philosophical issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.638
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1758-2237
pISSN - 1533-6077
DOI - 10.1111/phis.12041
Subject(s) - epistemology , embodied cognition , cognition , social epistemology , principal (computer security) , philosophy , epistemology of wikipedia , cog , task (project management) , evolutionary epistemology , cognitive science , psychology , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence , management , economics , neuroscience , operating system
There is a surge of attempts to draw out the epistemological consequences of views according to which cognition is deeply embedded, embodied and/or extended (e‐cog). The principal machinery used for doing so is that of analytic epistemology. Here I argue that Dewey's pragmatic epistemology may be better fit to the task. I start by pointing out the profound similarities between Dewey's view on cognition and that emerging from literature of more recent date. Crucially, the benefit of looking at Dewey is that Dewey, unlike contemporary writers, also devises a corresponding epistemology. I then identify two senses in which contemporary analytic epistemology conflicts with e‐cog—concluding from that the superiority of the Deweyian framework, at least as it concerns accommodating e‐cog.