Scaffolded Minds

Integration and Disintegration

Somogy Varga (Assistant Professor, University of Memphis)

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MIT Press
04 February 2025

Philosophy of mind; Abnormal psychology

Series: Philosophical Psychopathology

A comprehensive account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders.

A comprehensive account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders.

In Scaffolded Minds, Somogy Varga offers a novel account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders. The book is part of the growing philosophical engagement with empirically informed philosophy of mind, which studies the interfaces between philosophy and cognitive science. Varga draws on two recent shifts within empirically informed philosophy of mind- the first, toward an intensified study of the embodied mind; and the second, toward a study of the disordered mind that acknowledges the convergence of the explanatory concerns of psychiatry and interdisciplinary inquiries into the mind.

Varga sets out to accomplish a dual task- theoretical mapping of cognitive scaffolding; and the application/calibration of fine-grained philosophical distinctions to empirical research. He introduces the notion of actively scaffolded cognition (ASC) and offers a taxonomy that distinguishes between intrasomatic and extrasomatic scaffolding. He then shows that ASC offers a productive framework for considering certain characteristic features of mental disorders, focusing on altered bodily experience and social cognition deficits. With Cognitive Scaffolding, Varga aims to establish that shifting attention from mental symptoms to fine-grained sensorimotor aspects can lead to identifying diagnostic subtypes or even specific sensorimotor markers for early diagnosis.

By: Somogy Varga (Assistant Professor University of Memphis)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262553407
ISBN 10: 0262553406
Series: Philosophical Psychopathology
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 04 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Somogy Varga is Professor of Philosophy at Aarhus University, Denmark. He previously worked at the University of Memphis (2012-2019), the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabr ck (2009-2012), and the Institute of Social Research at Goethe University Frankfurt (2007-2009). He is the author of Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal and Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder.