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Back on the anti-representation train
I have the wonderful opportunity at the moment to teach methods of Ecological Psychology and Dynamic Systems Theory, their philosophical basis, theoretical concepts, how they require certain analyses, and what kinds of explanations this/these perspective/s give. I am lucky to be in a department that is (as of yet) wholly representation-dominant, yet are curious, interested,…
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Network and doctoral course startup at Lund University for Dynamic Systems Theory and Ecological Psychology
TL/DR; I have officially started a research network for the proliferation of everything Dynamic Systems Theory and Ecological Psychology, along with the start of my brand new doctoral course ‘The Psychology in Dynamic and Ecological Systems’. Outside of the doctoral programs at University of Connecticut and Cincinnati, there are research groups and individual researchers that…
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Reflections on ‘Radical Enactivism and Ecological Psychology: friends or foes?’
Target article: Zahidi, K., Eemeren, J.V. (2018) Radical Enactivism and Ecological Psychology: friends or foes? (OPC on “Perception-Action Mutuality Obviates Mental Construction” by Martin Fultot et al.) The article compares some core aspects of Enactivism (REC version) with Ecological Psychology (on the basis that Fultot et al. reflects it), they find disagreement and puts forth a…
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Enactivism and Ecological Psychology (preface to upcoming posts)
I am interested in the cooperation of Enactivism (EN) and Ecological Psychology (EP). At the root of it, EP has a strong research program, EN needs one. EN has a non-content story about “inside the body stuff”, EP has a non-content story about “outside stuff” (I won’t touch on it here, but I want to…
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Comments on ENSO Seminar “Radical Embodiment and Real Cognition”
Over at 4e Cognition Group Anthony Chemero has given a talk (YouTube link) about a couple of interesting new directions that he and his students are working on for their dissertations and a paper. The main impetus is to explain “higher order cognition” through a rECS-able perspective. The first turn is through Gui Sanches de…
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A non-content brain. 2/2
There is some misreading of Ecological Psychology due to the way direct perception and information detection are spoken about. Direct perception seems to carry with it a connotation of specificity (guarantee), that the world is in the specific way it is seen, we cannot be wrong and we have all of it available at once. There…
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A non-content brain. 1/2
In search for a non-content perspective of brain activity, I often feel I come up empty handed. Either non-content is not really directly spoken about (e.g. Anderson, 2014, and isn’t really intended to -it does however very importantly free us from other assumptions), or when a positive account is languaged like “but the brain does this…
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No ‘content’ in EcoPsych and Direct Perception
TL/DR: While a valid concern, I don’t think EcoPsych relies on ‘environmental’ content.
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Abstractions and Scaling Up
TLDR: Abstract words and concepts are inseparable from specific instances, confusing it’s usage.
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First conference talk and proceedings publication!
Going to CogSci17 in London this summer for my first research presentation, the paper is to be published in the proceedings (and can be found here). Here’s the abstract: The actualization of affordances can often be accomplished in numerous, equifinal ways. For instance, an individual could discard an item in a rubbish bin by walking…