Affordances Are Enough
Reply to Chemero et al. (2003)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14982877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas A Stoffregen (0000-0003-1467-9168, International College of Applied Kinesiology-USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-36 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ecological Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1040-7413 • E-ISSN: 1532-6969 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15326969eco1501_03 |
| OpenAlex | W2073652248 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 16 |
Chemero, Klein, and Cordeiro (this issue) present an argument about the utility of a concept of events within the ecological approach to perception and action. They define ecological events as changes in the layout of affordances, and they distinguish this concept from earlier definitions of event, which they refer to as physical events. They argue that changes in the layout of affordances should be perceived, that is, that their perception is motivated by the ecological approach to perception and action. They also argue that changes in the layout of affordances are perceived, and they offer an experiment that supports the hypothesis that humans are sensitive to changes in the layout of affordances. What they do not do, I argue, is offer any compelling reason why event should be applied to changes in the layout of affordances. I also argue that changes in the layout of affordances do not have a special ontological status that might merit a unique name or constitute a category of perceivables that is logically distinct from affordances
Action (physics · Affordance · Argument (complex analysis · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Ecological psychology · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Human–computer interaction · Perception · Action Observation and Synchronization · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Visual perception and processing mechanisms
A systematic review of perception of affordances for the person-plus-object system
When knowledge professionals meet technology
Affective atmospheres and the enactive-ecological framework
The perception of religious meaning and value
The value of affordances
Perception of Maximum Reaching Height When the Means of Reaching Are No Longer in View
Intention Prediction is Affordance Perception
Affordances as Properties of the Animal-Environment System
Breadth and Limits of the Affordance Concept
An Ecological Approach to Dynamic and Static Camera Framing Techniques
Affordances in Situation Theory
The Ecology of Human-Machine Systems II
What Events Are
Affordances and Events
Are Events and Affordances Commensurate Terms
Events as Changes in the Layout of Affordances
Detection of Violations of the Law of Pendulum Motion
What an Actor Must Do in Order to Perceive the Affordance for Sitting
Events (Like Objects) Are Things, Can Have Affordance Properties, and Can Be Perceived
Scaling Judgments of Lifted Weight
Affordances and Events
| Citations per year | 0.48 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |