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Extended Mind and Patriarchy: Cognitive Interpretation of the Reproduction of Patriarchal System

Publication date: 04.12.2024

Teoria Polityki, 2024, Nr 9/2024, pp. 9-25

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440845TP.24.013.20709

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Filip Pierzchalski
University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 30, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland
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Mariangela D’Ambrosio
University of Molise
, Italy
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Extended Mind and Patriarchy: Cognitive Interpretation of the Reproduction of Patriarchal System

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyze the patriarchal system in the light of the cognitive concept of the extended mind. The extended mind hypothesis fits in the externalist definition of the mind, where environmental and social factors (exostructures) are valued in explaining complex mental and cognitive processes – subjective experience in general. In this scientific interpretation, the reproduction of patriarchy can be reduced to the individual reproduction of a specific type of mentality, more precisely, the androcentrically shaped intentionality of participants in collective life. In other words, male and female mentality – including perceptual and introspective awareness – are gradually dependent on a complex and multi-level mechanism of cultural transmission. A process that in this case should be perceived as a key factor in promoting patriarchal models of femininity/masculinity, which is directly related to the dissemination of phallogocentric thinking, attitudes, behaviors, etc. in society.

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Information: Teoria Polityki, 2024, Nr 9/2024, pp. 9-25

Article type: Original article

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0476-5495

Filip Pierzchalski
University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 30, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0476-5495 Orcid
All publications →

University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 30, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-00012-0476-5495

Mariangela D’Ambrosio
University of Molise
, Italy
https://orcid.org/0000-00012-0476-5495 Orcid
All publications →

University of Molise
Italy

Published at: 04.12.2024

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Filip Pierzchalski (Author) - 50%
Mariangela D’Ambrosio (Author) - 50%

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Filip Pierzchalski – Associate Professor at the Department of Political Theory and Political Thought, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw. Researcher in political theory, political philosophy, aestheticisation of politics; feminist criticism.

Mariangela D’Ambrosio – Researcher in General Sociology at the Department of Economics, in Unimol, University of Molise (Italy). She is, also, a specialist social worker. Her research topics include, among others: the gender and the peer (also online) violence, emotions from a sociological perspective, the role of professional social work, and the social policies.

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