Strawson, Galen. "Up and Coming." TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT May 28, 2009.

Analytic philosophers of mind are heavily into the body. They’re forever in flight from something they call "Cartesianism". There's a pouring forth of books and papers explaining that the mind or self is essentially embodied, essentially environmentally embedded, "ecological", "enactive", elementally earthy, endogenously "extended" beyond the bounds of the skull and even the body. Much of this is good and sensible; for an overview see for example Shaun Gallagher’s How the Body Shapes the Mind (reviewed in the TLS, January 27, 2006), or Evan Thompson's Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology and the Sciences of Mind (to be reviewed in a future issue of the TLS). Philosophy, though, tends to careen from one extreme to another, and many think that the "extended mind" hypothesis, according to which your diary and mobile phone are quite literally part of your mind, goes too far. . . . Read the rest here: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6377644.ece.