Course instructor

Annie Murphy Paul

Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, Slate, Time magazine, and The Best American Science Writing, among many other publications. She is the author of The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain and two other books.

Course content

A concise overview of her book The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

  • Learn why we are more than just our brain.

  • Understand the ways in which cognition and learning can be supported by the world around us.

Course curriculum

    1. The Extended Mind

    2. The Extended Mind - Quiz

About this course

  • Free
  • 2 lessons
  • 0.5 hours of video content

Extend and expand your mind

with this free course