Active or haptic touch typically involves externally directed experiences of things in the world. We experience through touch tables, chairs, breezes, cups, dogs, microwaves, even other people. Such experiences are directed at ordinary material objects and their properties, just like vision is typically directed at external objects and their features …
First let me thank the wonderful people here at Brains for asking me to blog over the next couple of weeks. I’m really looking forward to it. I was recently asked to summarize my philosophical interests and approach in a single sentence. I was put on the spot, but I …
I’m very glad to be introducing Matthew Fulkerson, who will contribute several featured posts at the Brains blog beginning this week. Matt is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, where he has taught since 2012. Prior to that he was a …
… in a podcast at New Books in Philosophy. The interview concerns Jacobson’s Keeping the World in Mind: Mental Representations and the Science of the Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
In the first section of chapter 7 of The Peripheral Mind, I discuss Aristotle’s Illusion, a tactile-proprioceptive illusion that is very easy to replicate by crossing two of your hand fingers, and touching the region thus created between the fingertips with a cylindrical object. Most people report that they feel …
This is the first of a series of three blog posts about my book. It will introduce the main idea behind it, and highlight a few applications. The second post will present one of the chapters in a bit more detail. Finally, the last post will try to identify some …
When I first heard about the extended-mind thesis (EMT), some time in the mid-2000s, I was instantly intrigued—mainly because it feels so intuitively right. Driving my car, I often feel that I am my car, or that my car is me. Driving a rental car, especially as I pull it …
