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(2019) The philosophy of affordances, Dordrecht, Springer.

Ecological psychology

Manuel Heras-Escribano

pp. 17-60

In this chapter, I offer an overview of the main principles and innovations of ecological psychology. First, I introduce the central commitments: embodiment, situatedness, and non-representationalism. Then, I focus on the main concepts of the ecological approach (the organism–environment system, ecological information, and specificity), showing that affordances can only be properly understood within this ecological framework.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98830-6_2

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Heras-Escribano, M. (2019). Ecological psychology, in The philosophy of affordances, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 17-60.

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