Editing Andy Clark (section)

{{Short description|British philosopher}}
{{other people}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2017}}
{{Infobox philosopher
|region = [[Western philosophy]]
|era = [[21st-century philosophy]]
|name = Andy Clark 
|birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1957}}
|birth_place = 
|school_tradition = [[Analytic philosophy]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Stirling]]
|institutions = [[University of Sussex]]<br>[[University of Edinburgh]]<br>[[Glasgow University]]<br>[[Washington University in St. Louis]]<br>[[Indiana University, Bloomington]]
|main_interests = [[Philosophy of mind]]
|notable_ideas = [[Extended mind]]
}}

'''Andy Clark''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|commas=on|FBA|size=100%}} (born 1957) is a [[British people|British]] [[philosopher]] who is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the [[University of Sussex]]. Prior to this, he was a professor of [[philosophy]] and [[Chair (official)|Chair]] in [[Logic]] and [[Metaphysics]] at the [[University of Edinburgh]] in [[Scotland]], director of the [[Cognitive Science]] Program at [[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]] in [[Bloomington, Indiana]] and previously taught at [[Washington University in St. Louis]], Missouri. Clark is one of the founding members of the CONTACT collaborative research project whose aim is to investigate the role environment plays in shaping the nature of [[Consciousness|conscious experience]].<ref>{{Cite web |year=2006 |title=CONTACT - Consciousness in Interaction |url=http://linus.media.unisi.it/cirg/contact/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061013182832/http://linus.media.unisi.it/cirg/contact/ |archive-date=13 October 2006 |access-date=3 October 2011 |website=linus.media.unisi.it}}</ref> Clark's papers and books deal with the [[philosophy of mind]] and he is considered a leading scholar {{Citation needed|date=February 2020|reason=is there a reliable source for this?}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chalmers |first=David |title=Supersizing the Mind [Foreword] |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2008 |isbn=9780199773688 |location=Oxford |pages=x |language=en}}</ref> on the subject of [[mind extension]]. He has also written extensively on [[connectionism]], [[robotics]] and the role and nature of [[mental representation]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-03-17 |title=Philosophy &#124; The University of Edinburgh |url=http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/people/clark/publications.html |access-date=2020-05-25 |publisher=Philosophy.ed.ac.uk}}</ref>