Affective affordances
Carvalho, E. M.
(2022).
Affective Affordances: Direct perception meets affectivity.
Perspectiva Filosófica. 49(5), 19-51.
AbstractIn this paper, I explore and examine different ways in which affectivity is related to perception within ecological psychology. I assess whether some of those ways compromise the realist and direct aspects of traditional ecological perception. I sustain that they don’t. Affectivity, at least in some cases, turns the perception of fine-grained affordances possible. For an engaged perceiver, affectivity is not optional.