Mark Rowlands (born 1962) is a Welsh writer and philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy at the

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, and the author of several books on the philosophy of mind, the moral status of non-human animals, and cultural criticism. He is known within academic philosophy for his work on the animal mind and is one of the principal architects of the view known as vehicle

externalism Externalism is a group of positions in the philosophy of mind which argues that the conscious mind is not only the result of what is going on inside the nervous system (or the brain), but also what ''occurs'' or ''exists'' outside the subject. It ...

, or the extended mind, the view that thoughts, memories, desires and beliefs can be stored outside the brain and the skull. His works include ''Animal Rights'' (1998), ''The Body in Mind'' (1999), ''The Nature of Consciousness'' (2001), ''Animals Like Us'' (2002), and a personal memoir, ''The Philosopher and the Wolf'' (2008). Rowlands was born in Newport, Wales and began his undergraduate degree in engineering at the

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before changing to philosophy. He took his doctorate in philosophy from the

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, and has held various academic positions in philosophy in Britain, Ireland and the United States. His best known work is his international best-selling memoir, ''The Philosopher and the Wolf'', about the decade he spent living and travelling with a wolf. As Jonathan Derbyshire wrote in his ''Guardian'' review, "it is perhaps best described as the autobiography of an idea, or rather a set of related ideas, about the relationship between human and non-human animals."

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wrote in the ''Financial Times'' that it was "a remarkable portrait of the bond that can exist between a human being and a beast." Mark Vernon writing in ''The Times Literary Supplement'' added that it "could become a philosophical cult classic."Vernon, Mark
'Mark Rowlands and his wild lessons in externalism'
''The Times Literary Supplement'', 31 December 2008

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*''Supervenience and Materialism'', Ashgate, 1995. *''Animal Rights: A Philosophical Defence'', Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1998. *''The Body in Mind: Understanding Cognitive Processes'', Cambridge University Press, 1999. *''The Environmental Crisis: Understanding the Value of Nature'', Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 2000. *''The Nature of Consciousness'', Cambridge University Press, 2001. *''Animals Like Us'', Verso, 2002. *''Externalism: Putting Mind and World Back Together Again'', Acumen/McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. *''The Philosopher at the End of the Universe'', Ebury/Random House, 2003 ; retitled ''Sci-Phi: Philosophy from Socrates to Schwarzenegger'', 2nd edition *''Everything I Know I Learned From TV: Philosophy for the Unrepentant Couch Potato'', Ebury/Random House, 2005 *''Body Language: Representing in Action'', MIT Press, 2006. *''Fame'', Acumen 2008. *''The Philosopher and the Wolf'', Granta, 2008. *''The New Science of the Mind'', MIT Press, 2010. *''Can Animals be Moral?'' Oxford University Press, 2012 *''Running with the Pack'', Granta, 2013 *''The Word of Dog'', Liveright Publishing Corp.

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