Alumna, Philosophy
University of Helsinki, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy
University of Latvia, Faculty of History and Philosophy
Thesis Title: Psychiatry in the context of extended emotion: is there a constitutive environmental contribution to panic attacks?
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Mark Sprevak
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About
Education:
2010: BA Philosophy (Distinction), University of Latvia
Thesis title: «The discussion of embodied cognition and active externalism in philosophy of cognitive science»
2008: ERASMUS scholarship exchange semester, Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki
2011: MSc Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition, University of Edinburgh (Thesis grade: 81)
MSc thesis hypothesis:
Following from current theories about the embodiment of emotion I propose that the way external factors contribute to an individual’s emotions can be described in terms of cognitive coupling in a similar, although not identical way that the extended mind thesis suggests about embodied cognitive processes.
The aim is therefore to develop an explanatory framework that provides a more inclusive account of externally influenced emotional aspects in panic disorder patients, as well as suggest possible ways of testing the framework empirically.
