Tool use and mind: The extended self as implied by the extended mind
Without a clear thesis, you have no dissertation topic. The thesis should be expressed in one to three sentences (three seems the absolute maximum). Also, you should have a technical way of explaining your thesis to experts in your field, but you should also have a non-technical way of explaining your thesis to non-experts.
Technical thesis: Defend the claim that the relevant material implication holds between the Extended Mind Hypothesis and the Extended Self thesis. Letting ‘M’ be The Extended Mind is ‘true’', and letting ‘S’ be 'the Extended Self thesis is ‘true’', I defend:
(*) Mà S
Non-technical thesis: I am working on how the way we think informs us about who we are. My research seeks to construct a theory of mind that places some parts of thinking outside of the biological brain. I then explore what that might mean for the way we define human persons.
