The enactive view of human cognition starts with the idea that we are action oriented. Our
ability to make sense of the world comes from an active and pragmatic engagement with the …

Theoretical and empirical accounts of the interconnectedness between the manual and the
mental suggest that the hand can be understood as a cognitive instrument. Cartesian …

Sometimes we think with our hands. Is that an outrageous claim? What would make it less
outrageous? Perhaps showing that mental concepts like intentionality are perfectly …

This book offers a novel account of Aquinas's theory of the human act. It argues that Aquinas
takes a human act to be a composite of two power-exercises, where one relates to the other …

In'Anti-expertise, Instability, and Rational Choice': Roy A. Sorensen (in effect) defends 5
against apparent counterexamples. I will argue that we ought to give up 5 and realize there …

From Aristotle and Galen to Charles Bell and Charles F é r é, many presume a connection
between the hand and our intellectual capacities. In this study, however, I will point out how …

What are the origins of human difference? The Hand, which is the first part of a bold
philosophical inquiry into the nature of the difference between human beings and other …

In my thesis, I examined the theories of Extended Mind, Extended Conscious Mind and
Enactivism. Briefly, Extended Mind (Clark and Chalmers, 1998) is the claim that objects in …

1. Background On the causal view under consideration (CV), actions are like US currency
and sunburns in a noteworthy respect. The piece of paper with which I just purchased my …

Free will is widely thought to require (i) the possibility of acting otherwise and (ii) the
intentional endorsement of one's actions (“indeterministic picking is not enough”). According …