John T Sanders
Biographic Data
| ID | 4277422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John T Sanders |
| GIVEN NAMES | John T |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanders |
| SIGNATURE | SANDERS J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Ontology of Affordances
I argue that the most promising approach to understanding J.J. Gibson's "affordances" takes affordances themselves as ontological primitives, instead of treating them as dispositional properties of more primitive things, events, surfaces, or substances. These latter are best treated as coalescences of affordances present in the environment (or "coalescences of use-potential," as in Sanders (1994) and Hilditch (1995)). On this view, even the ecolo…
Merleau-Ponty on Meaning, Materiality, and Structure
Against David Schenck's interpretation, I argue that it is not absolutely clear that Merleau-Ponty ever meant to replace what Schenck refers to as the "unity of meanings" interpretation of "structure" with a "material meanings" interpretation. A particular problem-setting -- for example, an attempt to understand the "truth in naturalism" or the "truth in dualism" -- may very well require a particular mode of expression. I argue that the mode of e…
Merleau-Ponty, Gibson, and the materiality of meaning
On 'Cuteness
Journal Article ON 'CUTENESS' Get access John T. Sanders John T. Sanders Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of TechnologyRochester, New York 14623, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 32, Issue 2, April 1992, Pages 162–165, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/32.2.162 Published: 01 April 1992
Merleau-Ponty, Gibson, and the materiality of meaning
On 'Cuteness
Journal Article ON 'CUTENESS' Get access John T. Sanders John T. Sanders Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of TechnologyRochester, New York 14623, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 32, Issue 2, April 1992, Pages 162–165, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/32.2.162 Published: 01 April 1992
On 'Cuteness
Journal Article ON 'CUTENESS' Get access John T. Sanders John T. Sanders Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of TechnologyRochester, New York 14623, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 32, Issue 2, April 1992, Pages 162–165, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/32.2.162 Published: 01 April 1992
Merleau-Ponty, Gibson, and the materiality of meaning
Merleau-Ponty on Meaning, Materiality, and Structure
Against David Schenck's interpretation, I argue that it is not absolutely clear that Merleau-Ponty ever meant to replace what Schenck refers to as the "unity of meanings" interpretation of "structure" with a "material meanings" interpretation. A particular problem-setting -- for example, an attempt to understand the "truth in naturalism" or the "truth in dualism" -- may very well require a particular mode of expression. I argue that the mode of e…
An Ontology of Affordances
I argue that the most promising approach to understanding J.J. Gibson's "affordances" takes affordances themselves as ontological primitives, instead of treating them as dispositional properties of more primitive things, events, surfaces, or substances. These latter are best treated as coalescences of affordances present in the environment (or "coalescences of use-potential," as in Sanders (1994) and Hilditch (1995)). On this view, even the ecolo…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Affordance (2 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work)