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    Our paper is concerned with theories of direct perception in ecological psychology that first emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. Ecological psychology continues to be influential among philosophers and cognitive scientists today who defend a 4E (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive) approach to the scientific study of cognition. Ecological psychologists have experimentally investigated how animals are able to directly perceive their surrounding environment and what it affords…Read more
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    In his writings, Gibson firmly claimed that cultural or social factors could never distort perception. Cultural artefacts, social norms, language and signs were instead described as influencing perception and behavior only indirectly. At the same time, in his last monumental monograph, Gibson introduced the concept of affordance as applicable to the “whole realm of social significance”. Unfortunately, Gibson did not elaborate further on the relationship between the notion of affordance and the s…Read more
  • Introduction
    In Mark-Oliver Casper & Giuseppe Flavio Artese (eds.), Situated Cognition Research: Methodological Foundations, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-14. 2023.
    In the last three decades, an interdisciplinary research program - called “the 4E approaches” - highlighted the necessity of rethinking the theoretical assumptions and experimental practices of mainstream cognitive science. However, the claim of the disruptive potential of 4E research grows old without seeing the announced and wanted effects on how cognitive phenomena are studied. This introduction to the edited volume “Situated Cognition Research: Methodological Foundations” focuses on the meth…Read more
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    This volume assembles supporters and critics of situated cognition research to evaluate the intricacies, prerequisites, possibilities, and scope of a 4E methodology. The contributions are divided into three categories. The first category entails papers dealing with a 4E methodology from the perspective of epistemology and philosophy of science. It discusses whether to support explanatory pluralism or explanatory unification and focuses on possible compromises between ecological psychology and en…Read more
  • Methodology of Situated Cognition Research (edited book)
    Springer - Studies in Brain and Mind. forthcoming.
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    The Social Orders of Existence of Affordances
    Philosophia Scientiae 26 211-232. 2022.
    Central figures in the phenomenological tradition, such as Aron Gurwitsch, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, drew extensively on gestalt psychology in their writings. The dialogue between phenomenology and psychology they began continues today in the field of embodied cognitive science. We take up this conversation starting from Aron Gurwitsch’s rich phenomenological analysis of the perception of the cultural world. Gurwitsch’s phenomenological descriptions of the perception of the cu…Read more
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    The Social Orders of Existence of Affordances
    Philosophia Scientiae 211-232. 2022.
    Central figures in the phenomenological tradition, such as Aron Gurwitsch, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, drew extensively on gestalt psychology in their writings. The dialogue between phenomenology and psychology they began continues today in the field of embodied cognitive science. We take up this conversation starting from Aron Gurwitsch’s rich phenomenological analysis of the perception of the cultural world. Gurwitsch’s phenomenological descriptions of the perception of the cu…Read more
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    A Husserlian Approach to Affectivity and Temporality in Affordance Perception
    In Affordances in Everyday Life. A Multidisciplinary Collection of Essays, Springer. pp. 181-190. 2022.
    Gibson defined affordances as action possibilities directly offered to an animal by the environment. Ambitiously, affordances are meant to show the inadequacy of the subjective-objective dichotomy in the study of cognition. Armed with similar concerns, some neo-Gibsonians recently thought of affordances as latent dispositions existing independently of individual organisms or whole species. It is no coincidence that critics had, on several occasions, objected that this theoretical stance dramatic…Read more
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    Gurwitsch’s Field of Consciousness and Radical Embodied Cognitive Science: A Case of Mutual Enlightenment
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 53 (2): 177-192. 2021.
    This article tests the waters concerning a possible integration of Gurwitsch’s theory of consciousness into 4E research. More specifically, it is suggested that radical embodied approaches can bene...
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    Gurwitsch’s Field of Consciousness and Radical Embodied Cognitive Science: A Case of Mutual Enlightenment
    Tandf: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 1-16. forthcoming.
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    Conference Report: SOPhiA 2019
    Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy 33 (3): 105-108. 2019.