The Philosophy of Affordances

• Main Author: Heras-Escribano, Manuel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
• Subjects: Philosophy of mind.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Philosophy.; Existentialism.; Philosophy of Mind.; Social Philosophy.; Philosophy of Man.; Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.

This book is the first monograph fully devoted to analyzing the philosophical aspects of affordances. The concept of affordance, coined and developed in the field of ecological psychology, describes the possibilities for action available in the environment. This work offers a systematic approach to...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Ecological Psychology
• Chapter 3. The Ontology of Affordances
• Chapter 4. The Normativity of Affordances
• Chapter 5. Towards an Ecological Approach to Agency
• Chapter 6. Ecological Information and Perceptual Content
• Chapter 7. New Challenges for Ecological Psychology
• Chapter 8. Epilogue.