Andy Clark (philosopher)

Andrew Clark (* 1957) is Professor of Philosophy in the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Prior to that, he was director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University Bloomington , Indiana and previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and the University of Sussex in England. Clark is one of the founding members of the joint research project CONTACT, the aim of which is to examine the role that the environment plays in shaping the nature of conscious experience. Clark's publications deal with the philosophy of mind and he is considered a leading scientist in mind extension . He has also worked on connectionism , robotics, and the role and nature of mental representation .

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Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science and Parallel Distributed Processing (1989)
Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts and Representational Change (1993)
Being There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again (1997)
Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (2001)
Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence (2004)
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (2008)
Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind (2016)

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SURNAME	Clark, Andy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Clark, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1957