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32Ecological foundations of cognition. II: Degrees of freedom and conserved quantities in animal-environment systemsJournal of Consciousness Studies 6 (11-12): 11-12. 1999.Cognition means different things to different psychologists depending on the position held on the mind-matter problem. Ecological psychologists reject the implied mind-matter dualism as an ill-posed theoretic problem because the assumed mind-matter incommensurability precludes a solution to the degrees of freedom problem. This fundamental problem was posed by both Nicolai Bernstein and James J. Gibson independently. It replaces mind-matter dualism with animal-environment duality -- a better pose…Read more
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52Ecological foundations of cognition. I: Symmetry and specificity of animal-environment systemsJournal of Consciousness Studies 6 (11-12): 11-12. 1999.Ontological and methodological constraints on a theory of cognition that would generalize across species are identified. Within these constraints, ecological arguments for animal-environment mutuality and reciprocity and the necessary specificity of structured energy distributions to environmental facts are developed as counterpoints to the classical doctrines of animal-environment dualism and intractable nonspecificity. Implications of and for a cognitive theory consistent with Gibson's program…Read more
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10The ecological approach to perceptionIn Lynn Nadel (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Macmillan. 2002.
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15Perception: The ecological approachIn L. Nadel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Nature Publishing Group. 2003.
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The medium matters! In defense of medium-specificity in classical film theoryIn Kyle Stevens (ed.), The Oxford handbook of film theory, Oxford University Press. 2022.
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22Concurrent Cognitive Task Modulates Coordination DynamicsCognitive Science 29 (4): 531-557. 2005.
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36Event coding as feature guessing: The lessons of the motor theory of speech perceptionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (5): 886-887. 2001.The claim that perception and action are commonly coded because they are indistinguishable at the distal level is crucial for theories of cognition. However, the consequences of this claim run deep, and the Theory of Event Coding (TEC) is not up to the challenge it poses. We illustrate why through a brief review of the evidence that led to the motor theory of speech perception.
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97Complexity, Hypersets, and the Ecological Perspective on Perception-ActionBiological Theory 2 (1): 23-36. 2007.The ecological approach to perception-action is unlike the standard approach in several respects. It takes the animal-in-its-environment as the proper scale for the theory and analysis of perception-action, it eschews symbol based accounts of perception-action, it promotes self-organization as the theory-constitutive metaphor for perception-action, and it employs self-referring, non-predicative definitions in explaining perception-action. The present article details the complexity issues confron…Read more
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34Animal-environment mutuality and direct perceptionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3): 395-397. 1980.
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WittgensteinIn Paisley Livingston & Carl R. Plantinga (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film, Routledge. 2008.
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Theory, philosophy, and film studiesIn Marc Furstenau (ed.), The film theory reader: debates and arguments, Routledge. 2010.
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8Is scepticism a'natural possibility 'of language?'In Richard Allen & Malcolm Turvey (eds.), Wittgenstein, theory, and the arts, Routledge. pp. 117. 2001.
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13Avant-Garde Films as PhilosophyIn Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa & Shawn Loht (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, Springer. pp. 573-600. 2019.The robust connections between philosophy and avant-garde cinema are investigated, and four strong senses in which avant-garde films can be “philosophical” are clarified: as illustrating philosophy, as originating philosophy, as enacting philosophy, and as occasioning philosophical reflection. While avant-garde cinema may only rarely, if ever, be able to create innovative philosophy, it excels at producing rich, philosophically informed perceptual experiences for viewers. Moreover, unlike works …Read more
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17Jacques Tati and the Philosophy of the Sight GagThe Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 2 (1): 27-44. 2021.In his article “Notes on the Sight Gag” from 1991, the philosopher Noël Carroll proposed a taxonomy of sight gags that recur throughout the genre of comedian comedy in cinema. This article revisits and augments Carroll’s taxonomy by analyzing the sight gags found in the films of Jacques Tati. Tati worked in a very different context than that of the silent Hollywood filmmakers from whose comic films Carroll largely derives his categories. He began making films in the sound era, and five of his si…Read more
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Bálazs : realist or modernist?In Marc Furstenau (ed.), The film theory reader: debates and arguments, Routledge. 2010.
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8Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts (edited book)Routledge. 2001.This is the first full exploration of the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. These original essays by philosophers and critics address key philosophical topics in the study of the arts and culture, such as humanism, criticism, psychology, painting, film and ethics. All exemplify Wittgenstein's method of conceptual investigation and highlight his notion of philosophy as a cure
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The Nature of Film. (Collapsed) Seeing-In and the (Im-)Possibility of Progress in Analytic Philosophy (of Film)In Christina Rawls, Diana Neiva & Steven S. Gouveia (eds.), Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides, Routledge Press, Research On Aesthetics. 2019.
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13Wittgenstein's later philosophyIn Richard Allen & Malcolm Turvey (eds.), Wittgenstein, theory, and the arts, Routledge. pp. 1. 2001.
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4Seeing theory: on perception and emotional response in current film theoryIn Richard Allen & Murray Smith (eds.), Film theory and philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 431--57. 1997.
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73Wittgenstein, theory, and the arts (edited book)Routledge. 2001.This pioneering work investigates the profound implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy to the practice, theory and criticism of the arts. The essays exemplify Wittgenstein's method of conceptual investigation and highlight his notion of philosophy as a cure.
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