Moral affordances and the demands of fittingness Some situations appear to make moral demands on us – they call for a certain response. How can we account for such paradigmatic moral experiences? And what normative properties or relations are inv...

In #vol37issue7 Fabienne Peter argues that we can account for moral experiences in terms of moral affordances, where moral affordances are opportunities for fitting action #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0951... d

Selective permeability, multiculturalism and affordances in education Selective permeability holds that people’s distinct capacities allow them to do different things in a space, making it unequally accessible. Though mainly applied to urban geography so far, we prop...

In #vol37issue7 Matthew Crippen & Dag Munk Lindemann propose selective permeability as an affordance-based approach for understanding diversity in #education doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Fashioning affordances: a critical approach to clothing as an affordance transforming technology Affordances are standardly understood as perceived possibilities for interaction. What is afforded is in turn regarded as dependent on the properties of a body and its environment. Human bodies are...

David Spurrett & Nick Brancazio offer a critical approach to #clothing as an affordance transforming technology in #vol37issue7 doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Towards an ecological social science? On introducing ‘social affordances’ to (some) social theory This paper discusses the concept of social affordances in relation to social theory. Our point of departure is the growing literature which posits, in one way or another, that affordances may be se...

In #vol37issue7 Rasmus Birk & Nick Manning discusse the concept of social affordances in relation to social theory doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Exploring the dynamics of architecture with the concept of affordance From an architectural perspective, the purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamic relations between individuals and the environments using the concept of affordance. In three different cases o...

In #vol37issue7 Turid Borgestrand Øien, S. Grangaard & V.L. Lygum explore the dynamics of #architecture with the concept of affordance doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Affordances and spatial agency in psychopathology Affordances are action-possibilities, ways of relating to and acting on things in our world. They help us understand how these things mean what they do and how we have bodily access to our world mo...

In an #openaccess #vol37issue7 article, Joe Krueger maintains that an affordance-based approach to #psychopathology can illuminate some of the causes of affective disorders and diminished spatial agency in self-world disturbances doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Examining behavioral settings and affordative space for the case of autism spectrum conditions in embodied cognition The aim of the paper is to deepen into a theoretical account on the role of behavioral settings and relational affordative space and how this perspective can be used to reconceptualize various huma...

In #vol37issue7 Itzel Cadena-Alvear & Melina Gastelum-Vargas examine behavioral settings and affordative space for the case of #autism spectrum conditions in embodied cognition doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Romantic affordances: The seductive realm of the possible In this article, James Gibson’s influential notion of “perceptual affordances” is applied to the romantic realm. The core idea of Gibson’s view rests on the possible, meaningful actions that the pe...

In an #openaccess #vol37issue7 paper, Aaron Ben-Ze’ev applies Gibson’s influential notion of “perceptual affordances” to the romantic realm doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Shifting the affective narrative: atmospheres as solicitations to alter situational emotion scripts Over the past decade, the notion of affective affordances has gained some prominence, particularly in the context of 4E approaches to affectivity. One example of affective affordances, mostly menti...

In #vol37issue7 Daniel Vespermann shifts the affective narrative, understanding #atmospheres as solicitations to change situational emotion scripts doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Affective atmospheres and the enactive-ecological framework The phenomenology of atmospheres is recently gaining attention in debates on situated affectivity. Atmospheres are defined as holistic affective qualities of situations that integrate disparate aff...

Enara García shows the potential of the phenomenology of atmospheres to enrich the ecological-enactive cognition framework & highlights the opportunity to construct a situated understanding of affectivity in #vol37issue7 doi.org/10.1080/0951...

I see actions. Affordances and the expressive role of perceptual judgments Originally formulated as a theory of perception, ecological psychology has shown in recent decades an increasing interest in language. However, a comprehensive approach to language by ecological ps...

In #vol37issue7 David Sanchez argues that a subject naturalist and non-factualist framework can open the possibility of an expressivist analysis of perceptual judgments that is compatible with the ecological understanding of #perception www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Can affordances be reasons? We discuss whether affordances can be reasons, against the background of two interlocked considerations: (1) While the problematic degree of idealization in accounts of reasons that treat them as m...

In an #openaccess #vol37issue7 paper, Tobias Starzak & Tobias Schlicht ask whether affordances can be reasons doi.org/10.1080/0951...

The risk of trivializing affordances: mental and cognitive affordances examined In the last years, we have attended to different attempts to extend the notion of affordance to include mental or cognitive actions. In short, the idea is that our capacity to perform some cognitiv...

Miguel Segundo-Ortin & Manuel Heras-Escribano claim that the existence of mental or cognitive affordances remains both scientifically mysterious and explanatorily unjustified in #vol37issue7 doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Affording imagination Discussion of affordance perception focuses almost exclusively on affordances for non-mental actions like climbing, walking and eating. This paper asks whether we might also perceive affordances fo...

In an #openaccess #vol37issue7 paper, Tom McClelland & Monika Dunin-Kozicka ask whether we might perceive affordances for a specific class of mental action: acts of #imagination doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Affordances from a control viewpoint Perceiving an armchair prepares us to sit. Reading the first line in a text prepares us to read it. This article proposes that the affordance construct used to explain reactive potentiation of beha...

In #vol37issue7 Joëlle Proust argues that the affordance construct used to explain reactive potentiation of behavior similarly applies to reactive potentiation of cognitive actions doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Mind in action: expanding the concept of affordance Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 37, No. 7, 2024)

Our #vol37issue7 is a special issue edited by Pablo Lopez Silva and Marta Jorba and starts with an introduction about expanding the concept of #affordance doi.org/10.1080/0951... #freeaccess