Mark Rowlands (born 1962) is a Welsh writer and philosopher.

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, or the extended mind, the view that thoughts, memories, desires and beliefs can be stored outside the brain and the skull.

[1] Rowlands was born in Newport, Wales and began his undergraduate degree in engineering at the University of Manchester before changing to philosophy.

"[4] Julian Baggini wrote in the Financial Times that it was "a remarkable portrait of the bond that can exist between a human being and a beast.

"[5] Mark Vernon writing in The Times Literary Supplement added that it "could become a philosophical cult classic.