Do No Harm: the Extended Mind Model and the Problem of Delayed Damage
I argue in this essay that there can be harm due to philosophy that is not directly expressed in violent imagery. The harm is instead a concealed and delayed detrimental effect of an assumption of non-violence in a working model, defined as a picture of a field of enquiry and the methods required to...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Springer Netherlands
[2016]
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Sophia
Année: 2016, Volume: 55, Numéro: 1, Pages: 71-82 |
| RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropologie VA Philosophie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Andy Clark
B extended mind B Harm B Process Philosophy B Philosophical models B Kim Sterelny |
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| Résumé: | I argue in this essay that there can be harm due to philosophy that is not directly expressed in violent imagery. The harm is instead a concealed and delayed detrimental effect of an assumption of non-violence in a working model, defined as a picture of a field of enquiry and the methods required to approach it. Theses for the extended mind, as developed by Andy Clark and others, lead to a form of harm that follows from the models they work with. These engineering, tool and function-based models seek smooth interactions and transparency. Following points made by Kim Sterelny in the philosophy of biology, I argue that claims for smoothness and transparency conceal underlying conflict in the situations they seek to describe and explain. This concealment leads to harm, defined as a diminishing of our capacities to flourish in a given environment. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-016-0515-3 |