Andy Clark

Andy Clark
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Alma materUniversity of Stirling
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Sussex
University of Edinburgh
Glasgow University
Washington University in St. Louis
Indiana University, Bloomington
Main interests
Philosophy of mind
Notable ideas
Extended mind

Andy Clark, FBA (born 1957) is a British philosopher who is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex. Prior to this, he was a professor of philosophy and Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Clark is one of the founding members of the CONTACT collaborative research project whose aim is to investigate the role environment plays in shaping the nature of conscious experience.[1] Clark's papers and books deal with the philosophy of mind and he is considered a leading scholar [citation needed][2] on the subject of mind extension. He has also written extensively on connectionism, robotics and the role and nature of mental representation.[3]

  1. ^ "CONTACT - Consciousness in Interaction". linus.media.unisi.it. 2006. Archived from the original on 13 October 2006. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
  2. ^ Chalmers, David (2008). Supersizing the Mind [Foreword]. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. x. ISBN 9780199773688.
  3. ^ "Philosophy | The University of Edinburgh". Philosophy.ed.ac.uk. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2020.