Persons and affordances
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Persons and affordances. / Lo Presti, Patrizio Ulf Enrico.
In: Ecological Psychology, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2020, p. 25-40.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Persons and affordances
AU - Lo Presti, Patrizio Ulf Enrico
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Interdisciplinary interest in affordances is increasing. This paper is a philosophical contribution. The question is: Do persons offer affordances? Analysis of the concepts ‘person’ and ‘affordance’ supports an affirmative answer. On a widely accepted understanding of what persons are, persons exhibit many of the features typical of socionormative affordances. However, to understand persons as offering affordances requires, on the face of it, stretching traditional understandings of the concept of affordance: persons, in contrast to the organisms that partially constitute persons, do not seem to be available to perception. This and similar worries are responded to.
AB - Interdisciplinary interest in affordances is increasing. This paper is a philosophical contribution. The question is: Do persons offer affordances? Analysis of the concepts ‘person’ and ‘affordance’ supports an affirmative answer. On a widely accepted understanding of what persons are, persons exhibit many of the features typical of socionormative affordances. However, to understand persons as offering affordances requires, on the face of it, stretching traditional understandings of the concept of affordance: persons, in contrast to the organisms that partially constitute persons, do not seem to be available to perception. This and similar worries are responded to.
U2 - 10.1080/10407413.2019.1689821
DO - 10.1080/10407413.2019.1689821
M3 - Journal article
VL - 32
SP - 25
EP - 40
JO - Ecological Psychology
JF - Ecological Psychology
SN - 1040-7413
IS - 1
ER -
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