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naturalism” – the introduction presents a number of themes that are threaded throughout the entire work. These include engagement with evolutionary theory and neuroscience; theories of embodied cognition and the extended mind; worries about theories that

engagement with the theory of the “extended mind,” as well as with the idea of “niche construction” drawn from evolutionary theory. This “technocultural” dimension of the overall theory advanced by FACT is noted by Jane Stadler in her commentary (86), though

: 173) may provide the key to solving this problem. Film as an Extension of Mind In his chapter “Empathy, Expansionism and the Extended Mind,” Smith uses the theory of the “extended mind,” or the idea that cognition is not just located in the

account” of emotions and a demonstration of the value of psychological and philosophical theories of emotion for the interpretation of modernist cinema. Chapter 7 focuses on empathy in film as a function of the extended mind. Smith reviews and qualifies

in mind by offloading his biological memory onto a bodily record and an assemblage of tangible objects. This perspective is endorsed by cognitive philosopher Andy Clark ( 2010 ) in “ Memento' s Revenge: The Extended Mind, Extended,” which denies any

Literature, Music, and Art . Oxford : Oxford University Press . 10.1093/0199263655.001.0001 Smith , Murray . 2011 . “Empathy, Expansionism, and the Extended Mind.” In Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives , ed. Amy Coplan and

scientific treatise, pedagogical discourse, and an editor's manifesto. Within the framework of Andy Clark and David Chalmers's extended mind theory ( Clark and Chalmers 1998 ), which claims that human cognition is a hybridized interplay of internal

's activity. Murray Smith has even recently applied work in theories of extended mind to suggest that cinematic experience can form the ground for “empathic imagining” ( 2017, 182 ). Understanding the affective significance of affordances in films requires an

.5040/9780755697168 Rowlands , Mark . 2010 . The New Science of the Mind: From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . 10.7551/mitpress/9780262014557.001.0001 Sacks , Oliver . 2014 . “ Luria and ‘Romantic Science’ ”. In The Cambridge

symposium on Cognitive Science and the Moving Image , Chelsea College of Art and Design, 30 March. Smith , M. 2011b . “ Empathy, Expansionism, and the Extended Mind .” Pp. 99 – 117 in Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives , ed. Amy