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This paper focuses on the situation of the cognitive sciences from the perspective created by the debate between Robert Wilson and Rupert Clark—which posit "extended cognition" as the broadening of cognitive processes beyond the brain and skin of the cognitive agent—and Rooert Rupert, who defends the orthodox position—that the constitutive system of cognitive phenomena is limited to the central nervous one. From these basic positions, I'll argue that what is missing in this controversy is the development of an explicit conception of what human activity may be. What does task mean in the often-mentioned "cognitive task"? I will propose that "practice," as a concept developed from studies on the specificity ofhuman work, is a plausible candidate to fulfill such vacancy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
