Acknowledgements -- Preface -- The invention of the mind (Plato) -- Mind and body (Aristotle) -- The separation of mind and body (Saint Augustine) -- The imprisonment of the mind (Descartes) -- The law of specific nerve energies (Müller) -- The re-emergence of the mind : extended cognition -- The evolution of altruism and self-control -- Teleological analysis of altruism and self-control -- Consciousness and behavior -- How to make IBM's computer watson human -- Commentaries: -- From contemporary philosophy of mind (McDowell) -- From radical behaviorism (Schlinger) -- Author's reply -- Shaping the coherent self : a moral achievement
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This title argues that, in developing techniques of self-control and social cooperation, it is useful to question the almost universally accepted belief that our minds exist inside our bodies. We should look for our minds neither in our introspections nor in our brains, but in our long-term behavioural patterns