The New Mind revisited, or minding the content/vehicle distinction: a response to Manzotti and Pepperell
I argue that Manzotti and Pepperells presentation of the New Mind not only obfuscates pertinent differences between externalist views of various strengths, but also, and most problematically, conflates a distinction that cannot, without consequences, be conflated. We can talk about the contents of the mind and/or about the vehicles of those contents. But we should not conflate the two. Conflation of contents and vehicles comes with a price. In Manzotti and Pepperells case, it undermines claims they make about the implications of the New Mind.
content vehicles extended mind externalism consciousness