In Defense of Introspective Affordances

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ID21823213
AutoresDavid Miguel Gray (0000-0002-7853-7452, University of Memphis, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume16
Fascículo2
Páginas409-427
Data de publicação2025-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReview of Philosophy and Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1878-5158 • E-ISSN: 1878-5166
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s13164-024-00734-z
OpenAlexW4396800549
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas68

Psychological and philosophical studies have extended J. J. Gibson’s notion of affordances. Affordances are possibilities for bodily action presented to us by the objects of our perception. Recent work has argued that we should extend the actions afforded by perception to mental action. I argue that we can extend the notion of affordance itself. What I call ‘Introspective Affordances’ are possibilities for mental action presented to us by introspectively accessible states. While there are some prima facie worries concerning the non-perceptual nature of introspection, I will argue that our internal mental lives share enough commonalities with experiences in our environment to warrant this extension. I will demonstrate the value of introspective affordances by showing how they allow us to explain an underexplored aspect of thought insertion

Affordance · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Introspection · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of mind · Philosophy of science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Free Will and Agency · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology