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colleagues at MCTS. More detailed acknowledgements are to be found in the
endnotes.
My greatest gratitude, however, is reserved for my wife, Karin, and our two
children, David Marius and Simon Valentin. When I started writing, David
was a tiny embryo enjoying the safety and warmth of his mother’s womb.
When I was in the thick of writing (or at least supposed to be so), Karin delivered him in good health. When I submitted the manuscript for review with the
faculty, David could already walk and talk, play with other children and make
fun of his parents, while Simon was just a few weeks away from being born.
Now that proceedings, contracting and revisions are finished and the book is
going to publication, Simon is steadily moving towards the same achievements. My accomplishments of the last few years invariably pale before those
of my dearest ones.
Parts of this book are based on papers that have been presented at conferences,
partly published in conference proceedings, and in one case as a peer-reviewed
journal article:
• “What is the Extension of the Extended Mind?” Synthese Online First,
2015. Print version to appear in Cognition Special Issue edited by Cameron
Buckner and Ellen Fridland. URL: http: //link.springer.com/article/10.1007/
s11229-015-0799-9 (slightly extended version of Chapter 7).
• “Resurrecting Dretskean Information”, submitted paper for the Ninth International Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP.9),
Osnabrück, Germany, September 2015 (short version of Chapter 2).
• “What is an Informational Environment?”, submitted paper for the Sixth
Workshop on the Philosophy of Information (WPI6), Society for the Philosophy of Information, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, May 2014 (short
version of Chapter 6).
• “Affording Illusions? Natural Information and the Problem of Misperception”, invited paper for the interdisciplinary conference “What Affordance
Affords”, GOTO Project (Genesis and Ontology of Technoscientific Objects),
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, November 2013 (version of
parts of Chapter 3).
• “Perceptual Illusions, Misperceptions, and the Empirical Strategy”. In: Mind,
Language and Action. Papers of the 36th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Ed. by D. Moyal-Sharrock et al. Kirchberg am Wechsel: ALWS, 2013,
163–165 (early version of parts of Chapter 3).
• “Wie denkt eine intelligente Umwelt? Modelle adaptiven Verhaltens in der
Ambient Intelligence”. In: Vernetzung als soziales und technisches Paradigma. Ed. by H. Greif and M. Werner. Wiesbaden: VS Research, 2012, 207–
232 (early German version of parts of Chapter 9).
• “Erweiterte Phänotypen und Erweiterungen des Geistes: Die Rollen der
Umwelt in der KI-Forschung”. In: Die Neukonstruktion des Menschen.
Beiträge zum 7. Internationalen Tönnies-Symposium. Ed. by A. Bammé.
München: Profil, 2011 (early German incarnation of parts of Chapter 7).
colleagues at MCTS. More detailed acknowledgements are to be found in the
endnotes.
My greatest gratitude, however, is reserved for my wife, Karin, and our two
children, David Marius and Simon Valentin. When I started writing, David
was a tiny embryo enjoying the safety and warmth of his mother’s womb.
When I was in the thick of writing (or at least supposed to be so), Karin delivered him in good health. When I submitted the manuscript for review with the
faculty, David could already walk and talk, play with other children and make
fun of his parents, while Simon was just a few weeks away from being born.
Now that proceedings, contracting and revisions are finished and the book is
going to publication, Simon is steadily moving towards the same achievements. My accomplishments of the last few years invariably pale before those
of my dearest ones.
Parts of this book are based on papers that have been presented at conferences,
partly published in conference proceedings, and in one case as a peer-reviewed
journal article:
• “What is the Extension of the Extended Mind?” Synthese Online First,
2015. Print version to appear in Cognition Special Issue edited by Cameron
Buckner and Ellen Fridland. URL: http: //link.springer.com/article/10.1007/
s11229-015-0799-9 (slightly extended version of Chapter 7).
• “Resurrecting Dretskean Information”, submitted paper for the Ninth International Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP.9),
Osnabrück, Germany, September 2015 (short version of Chapter 2).
• “What is an Informational Environment?”, submitted paper for the Sixth
Workshop on the Philosophy of Information (WPI6), Society for the Philosophy of Information, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, May 2014 (short
version of Chapter 6).
• “Affording Illusions? Natural Information and the Problem of Misperception”, invited paper for the interdisciplinary conference “What Affordance
Affords”, GOTO Project (Genesis and Ontology of Technoscientific Objects),
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, November 2013 (version of
parts of Chapter 3).
• “Perceptual Illusions, Misperceptions, and the Empirical Strategy”. In: Mind,
Language and Action. Papers of the 36th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Ed. by D. Moyal-Sharrock et al. Kirchberg am Wechsel: ALWS, 2013,
163–165 (early version of parts of Chapter 3).
• “Wie denkt eine intelligente Umwelt? Modelle adaptiven Verhaltens in der
Ambient Intelligence”. In: Vernetzung als soziales und technisches Paradigma. Ed. by H. Greif and M. Werner. Wiesbaden: VS Research, 2012, 207–
232 (early German version of parts of Chapter 9).
• “Erweiterte Phänotypen und Erweiterungen des Geistes: Die Rollen der
Umwelt in der KI-Forschung”. In: Die Neukonstruktion des Menschen.
Beiträge zum 7. Internationalen Tönnies-Symposium. Ed. by A. Bammé.
München: Profil, 2011 (early German incarnation of parts of Chapter 7).