Ecological perspectivism: understanding perspectival realism through ecological psychology.
Perspectival realism claims that scientific knowledge is always situated into a vantage point. We argue that ecological psychology offers a suitable framework to develop perspectival epistemologies. Ecological psychology stresses that perception is focused on affordances, i.e. the possibilities of i...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 206; no. 3; pp. 1 - 26 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=187655656&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 187655656 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00397857 4LI jtl: Synthese issn: 00397857 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2025 vid: 206 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 187655656 10.1007/s11229-025-05222-0 ppf: 1 ppct: 25 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.1MB tig: atl: Ecological perspectivism: understanding perspectival realism through ecological psychology. aug: au: Malavolta, Bruno Carvalho, Eros Moreira de Ferreira, Rodrigo Sabadin affil: https://ror.org/01tmp8f25 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (IFFs), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciudad de México, México https://ror.org/041yk2d64 Pesquisador de Produtividade do CNPq e Professor permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia (PPG-Fil), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brasil https://ror.org/041yk2d64 Departamento de Filosofia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brasil sug: keyword: Ecological psychology Gibson Massimi Mitchell Perspectival realism Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Philosophy and Religious Studies Philosophy Scientific realism ab: Perspectival realism claims that scientific knowledge is always situated into a vantage point. We argue that ecological psychology offers a suitable framework to develop perspectival epistemologies. Ecological psychology stresses that perception is focused on affordances, i.e. the possibilities of interactions afforded by reality given the abilities of an organism. We call the integrating view as ecological perspectivism. It claims that science offers knowledge of reality in terms of affordances, which are relational to the instruments and abilities of scientific communities. Cognition is of affordances, and what a domain affords for scientists depends on which skills and technologies they avail. We connect this proposal with the main arguments for perspectivism. First, regarding instrumental detections, ecological perspectivism offers a realist account of perception that treats the use of instruments as tools that scaffold and extend embodied cognition. Second, regarding model pluralism, ecological perspectivism supports an artifactualist account of modelling as embodied cognition extended by tools. Such tools can be representational by receiving semantic interpretations that associate them with targets through the use of linguistic skills. Third, we promote Michella Massimi’s account of Natural Kinds with a Human Face. It treats kinds as open-ended groupings of phenomena with salient nomological dependencies. However, ecological perspectivism suggests that the realist content of scientific perspectives must be cashed out in terms of affordances, thereby reinterpreting the metaphysical notion of ‘phenomena’. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Synthese is a copyright of Springer, 2025. All Rights Reserved. item: Synthese holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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