Philosopher

Mark Rowlands

Overview

Mark Rowlands (born 1962) is a Welsh writer and philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, and the author of several books on the philosophy of mind, the moral status of non-human animals, and cultural criticism. He is known within academic philosophy for his work on the animal mind and is one of the principal architects of the view known as vehicle externalism, or the extended mind, the view that thoughts, memories, desires and beliefs can be stored outside the brain and the skull. His works include Animal Rights (1998), The Body in Mind (1999), The Nature of Consciousness (2001), Animals Like Us (2002), and a personal memoir, The Philosopher and the Wolf (2008).

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Philosophers who discussed Mark Rowlands

• Colin McGinn

Ideas Mark Rowlands discusses

• Julian Baggini
• Externalism
• University of Oxford
• Philosophy of mind
• Animal rights
• Ethics

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