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The risk of trivializing affordances: mental and cognitive affordances examined

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dc.contributor.authorSegundo Ortín, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorHeras Escribano, Manuel
dc.contributor.departmentFilosofía
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-10T11:10:51Z
dc.date.available2025-01-10T11:10:51Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-25
dc.description© 2023 Los autores. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This document is the Accepted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Philosophical Psychology. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2228341es
dc.description.abstractIn 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 cognitive functions such as counting, imagining, mathematical reasoning, and so on, is preceded by our awareness of cognitive or mental affordances. In this paper, we analyze two of these attempts, Mental Affordance Hypothesis, and cognitive horizons, and conclude that they fail to deliver their promise. Our argument is two-fold. First, we show that both proposals lack an explanation for how these affordances can be perceived or experienced by the individuals. Second, we argue, focusing on the examples provided by the authors, that the introduction of cognitive affordances is not justified on explanatory grounds. In other words, neither of these proposals offers a compelling justification for thinking that performing said “mental acts” requires the perception of mental or cognitive affordances. Hence, the existence of mental or cognitive affordances remains both scientifically mysterious and explanatorily unjustified.es
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dc.identifier.citationPhilosophical Psychology, 2023, Vol. 37, N. 7, pp. 1639-1655
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2228341
dc.identifier.issnPrint: 0951-5089
dc.identifier.issnElectronic: 1465-394X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/148244
dc.languageenges
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Groupes
dc.relationMSO. was supported by a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España (Award # RYC2021-031242-I), and by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, VIDI Research Project “Shaping our action space: A situated perspective on self-control” (VI.VIDI.195.116). MHE was supported by a Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación Fellowship from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España, and the project “De la experiencia a los conceptos: Una reformulación del problema de Molyneux a través de la sustitución sensorial ecológica (ECOCONCEPT)” – Ayudas Fundación BBVA a Proyectos de Investigación Científica 2021.es
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2023.2228341es
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dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional*
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dc.subjectAffordanceses
dc.subjectCognitive affordanceses
dc.subjectCognitiones
dc.subjectPerceptiones
dc.subjectEcological psychologyes
dc.titleThe risk of trivializing affordances: mental and cognitive affordances examinedes
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