In what follows, we have three goals. The first is to explicate pragmatism, which means
looking at it in the context of the history of philosophy, psychology, and science with the …

A widely cited roadblock to bridging ecological psychology and enactivism is that the former
identifies with realism and the latter identifies with constructivism, which critics charge is …

Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection challenges our very sense of belonging in the
world. Unlike prior evolutionary theories, Darwinism construes species as mutable historical …

This article focuses on situations and emotional perception. To this end, I start with the
Kuleshov effect wherein identical shots of performers manifest different expressions when …

This article examines how Modern theories of mind remain even in some materialistic and
hence ontologically anti-dualistic views; and shows how Dewey, anticipating Merleau-Ponty …

This article connects value-sensitive design to Gibson's affordance theory: the view that we
perceive in terms of the ease or difficulty with which we can negotiate space. Gibson's ideas …

Predictive processing theorists have claimed PTSD and depression are maladaptive and
epistemically distorting because they entail undesirably wide gaps between top-down …

In this chapter, I examine how Dewey circumnavigated debates between empiricists and a
priorists by showing that active bodies can perform integrative operations traditionally …

In this article, I integrate pragmatic and contemporary literature to advance a valuative
understanding of mind. That is, I argue valuations—taken to include emotions, interests and …

Evidence affirms that aesthetic engagement patterns our movements, often with us barely
aware. This invites an examination of pre-reflective engagement within cities and also …