Critics have argued that human-controlled avatar interactions fail to facilitate the kinds of
expressivity and social understanding afforded by our physical bodies. We identify three …

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 …

Explaining agency is a significant challenge for those who are interested in the sciences of
the mind, and non-representationalists are no exception to this. Even though both ecological …

I begin this article with an increasingly accepted claim: that emotions lend differential weight
to states of affairs, helping us conceptually carve the world and make rational decisions. I …

One challenge faced by aesthetics is the development of an account able to trace out the
continuities and discontinuities between general experience and aesthetic experiences …

Though there are many challenges to Ekman's thesis that there are basic emotions with
universal corresponding facial expressions, our main criticism revolves around the extent to …

My central claim is that resonances between Transcendentalist and Chinese philosophies
are so strong that the former cannot be adequately appreciated without the latter. I give …

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 …

Selective permeability holds that people's distinct capacities allow them to do different things
in a space, making it unequally accessible. Though mainly applied to urban geography so …