The boundaries of affectivity (and a coda on extended consciousness)

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https://doi.org/10.51359/2357-9986.2022.256751

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philosophy of mind and cognitive science, extended mind and situated cognition, situated affectivity, extended affectivity, extended consciousness

Abstract

In this contribution I will offer a rough guide through “situated affectivity”,a small galaxy of theories, ideas, intuitions which are recently growing atthe boundaries between philosophy of emotion, philosophy of mind, philo-sophy of cognitive science. In the last years, we are witnessing a real “affec-tive turn” in the domain of analytic philosophy of mind and cognitive scien-ce, and situated affectivity is an excellent example of what is going on in thefield. In the first part, I will present the main versions of situated affectivity,distinguishing between the ideas of situated or scaffolded emotions (Griffi-ths, Scarantino 2009; Colombetti, Krueger 2015) and properly extendedemotions (Carter et al. 2016; Colombetti, Roberts 2015), and showing theirlink to the corresponding idea of the mind: scaffolded, extended or otherwi-se. In the second part, I will further explore the connection between situatedaffectivity and the domain of extended mind: I will argue that, even if situa-ted affectivity could be in principle evaluated independently from any parti-cular theory about the mind, dealing with situated affectivity is, beside itsindependent interest, also a good way to tackle an unsettled problem in theliterature on extended mind, namely extended consciousness.

Author Biography

Giulia Piredda, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia.

Giulia Piredda is a senior researcher in Philosophy and Theory of Language at Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia, Italy (IUSS), where she is member of the Linguistics & Philosophy IUSS Center (L&PIC). Her primary research interests are in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science, while recently she also deals with philosophy of emotion and philosophy of technology.

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