My name is Patrick Alexander. In 2016 I received a Master’s Degree in philosophy from the Open University. My thesis asked ‘Does conscious intelligence require symbol-like primitives?’ My thinking has changed a great deal since then, but I’m still primarily interested in philosophy of mind and cognition. However, I now think these things intersect with pretty much everything else – so I’m interested in everything to varying degrees.
Key bundles of ideas motivating my thinking are extended cognition, embodiment, fields, affect, affordances, homeostasis, posthumanism, new materialism, neuroconstructivism, collapsing conceptual boundaries between culture, nature, matter, ideation, and so on. I’m increasingly interested in what we might think of as a philosophy of ontogenesis – what conceptual economy needs to be brought to bear on the problems of becoming? What is the relationship between thinking and becoming?
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