Date: Wednesday, October 16th, 4:00pm (Warsaw time)
Join us in person in our lab at the Geology Department, room no. 3099
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An alternative to the cognitive affordance hypothesis
Abstract
Recently, a series of scholars have proposed the cognitive affordance hypothesis (McClelland, 2020; Jorba, 2020). According to this hypothesis, we perceive a special kind of affordances, “cognitive affordances”, which allow us to carry out mental or cognitive actions such as counting, imagining, solving mathematical puzzles, and the like. In this talk, I analyze this hypothesis, posing three challenges that, in my view, need to be faced by its advocates. After this, I will sketch an alternative route to make sense of these cognitive actions, based on the notion of “education of intention” (Segundo-Ortin, 2024).
Reading
Segundo Ortín, M. (2022). Socio-cultural norms in ecological psychology: The education of intention. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences