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14Editorial: Changing Perspectives on Landscape Perception: Seeking Common Ground Between the Psychological Sciences and the HumanitiesFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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32Book reviews (review)Philosophical Psychology 8 (4): 389-431. 1995.Speaking: from Intention to Articulation Willem J. M. Levelt, 1989 (1993 paperback) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press ISBN: 0–262–12137–9(hb), 0–262–62089–8(pb)Rules for Reasoning Richard E. Nisbett (Ed.), 1993 Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ISBN: 0–8058–1256–3(hb), 0–8085–1257–1 (pb)Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science Alvin I. Goldman, 1993 Cambridge, MA, MIT Press ISBN: 0–262–07153–3(hb), 0–262–57100–5(pb)Language Comprehension in Ape and Child, Monographs of the Society for Resear…Read more
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16Lewin’s “Psychological Ecology” and the Boundary of the Psychological DomainPhilosophia Scientiae 189-210. 2022.The Gestalt psychologist Kurt Lewin called for a “psychological ecology” that would bring to light the social structures serving as the context for individual action and choice in everyday life. He envisioned social and physical environmental structures affecting the individual at a “boundary” within psychological experience (“the life space”). But how are we to conceptualize the manner in which such environmental structures influence individual experience and action? After all, the “nonpsycholo…Read more
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9Lewin’s “Psychological Ecology” and the Boundary of the Psychological DomainPhilosophia Scientiae 26 189-210. 2022.The Gestalt psychologist Kurt Lewin called for a “psychological ecology” that would bring to light the social structures serving as the context for individual action and choice in everyday life. He envisioned social and physical environmental structures affecting the individual at a “boundary” within psychological experience. But how are we to conceptualize the manner in which such environmental structures influence individual experience and action? After all, the “nonpsychological” and the psyc…Read more
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10In this book Harry Heft examines the historical and theoretical foundations of James J. Gibson's ecological psychology in 20th century thought, and in turn, integrates ecological psychology and analyses of sociocultural processes. A thesis of the book is that knowing is rooted in the direct experience of meaningful environmental objects and events present in individual-environment processes and at the level of collective, social settings. Ecological Psychology in Context: *traces the primary lin…Read more
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Perceptual Information of an Entirely Different Order: The Cultural Environment in The Senses Considered as Perceptual SystemsEcological Psychology 29 122--145. 2017.
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27Ecological Psychology and Enaction Theory: Divergent GroundingsFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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26Restoring Naturalism to James's Epistemology: A Belated Reply to Miller & BodeTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 38 (4). 2002.
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3Ecological Psychology in Context: James Gibson, Roger Barker, and the Legacy of William James's Radical EmpiricismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 38 (3): 468-472. 2002.
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11Incommensurability and the "omission" in Gibson's theory: A second reply to HeilJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 12 (3). 1982.
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433Affordances and the body: An intentional analysis of Gibson's ecological approach to visual perceptionJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 19 (1). 1989.In his ecological approach to perception, James Gibson introduced the concept of affordance to refer to the perceived meaning of environmental objects and events. this paper examines the relational and causal character of affordances, as well as the grounds for extending affordances beyond environmental features with transcultural meaning to include those features with culturally-specific meaning. such an extension is seen as warranted once affordances are grounded in an intentional analysis of …Read more
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34Perceiving affordances in context: A reply to ChowJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 20 (3). 1990.
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Denison UniversityRegular Faculty
Granville, Ohio, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Biology |
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |