Thinking <i>with</i> other minds

Baggs, Edward; Chemero, Anthony

doi:10.1017/s0140525x19002747

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“…The appeal to recursive inference-mentalizing or mindreading-implies that the meaning of the red traffic light is ultimately to be found inside the individual driver: the light derives its meaning from (its meaning 'is made possible by') the inferences made in the driver's disembodied mind (see Baggs and Chemero, 2020a).…”

Section: Objection 3: Mischaracterizing Higher-order Processesmentioning

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All Affordances Are Social: Foundations of a Gibsonian Social Ontology

Baggs

2021

Ecological Psychology

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Ecological psychology is built on a perception-oriented ontology. The primary focus has been on explaining the perception and action behavior of individual animals. To accommodate social phenomena within the ecological approach, it is necessary to expand the ontology, however theorists have been unclear about how to do this. The paper presents a negative argument and a positive programmatic outline. The negative argument is against the use of the term 'social affordance', a term that confuses the perspective of the researcher with that of the animal. Instead, it is advocated that we adopt, as a working hypothesis, the claim that all affordances are social; that is, all affordances are public and are, in principle, observable by a third party. The programmatic outline then shows that affordances alone are insufficient for describing social meaning. An ecological social ontology requires new tools for describing interaction processes, symbolic meaning, and material culture as structures occurring within the populated environment.

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Section: Objection 3: Mischaracterizing Higher-order Processesmentioning

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All Affordances Are Social: Foundations of a Gibsonian Social Ontology

Baggs

2021

Ecological Psychology

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Easy as 1, 2, 3: On the Short History of the Use of Affordance in Active Inference

Ramstead

2022

Affordances in Everyday Life

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Eye movements in the development of geometric shape recognition: from sensory-motor processes to theoretical perception

Chumachenko,

Shvarts,

Dreneva

et al. 2024

Educ Stud Math

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Efficient recognition of geometric shapes is an important aspect of proficiency in geometry. Building theoretically on the cultural-historical approach enriched by the physiology of activity, we investigate theoretical perception in geometry—the ability to recognize conceptual geometric aspects of visual figures. Aiming to understand the development of theoretical perception, we investigate how sensory-motor processes of eye movements differ between adults and children when perceiving geometric figures. In an empirical study, we explored the variety of perceptual strategies used by first-grade students and compared them with the adults’ perception. The results reveal the contraction of eye movements: with growing expertise, foveal analysis—namely, an inspection of the figures by directing the gaze to their parts—is substituted by extrafoveal analysis—namely, perceiving without looking directly. The variety of the observed children’s perceptual strategies demonstrates that theoretical perception of different figures is heterogeneous. From the suggested theoretical perspective, the direct foveal inspection of particular figures is critical for the development of general anticipatory images of geometric shapes. Our theoretical analysis and empirical findings lead to distinguishing several functions of sensory-motor processes in theoretical perception in geometry. Those functions include positioning the retina in the best way for the comparison of sensory feedback with the geometric shape’s anticipatory image, advancing an anticipatory image based on visual experience, and regulating covert attention. All of these functions need to be taken into account when interpreting the results of eye-tracking studies in mathematics education research. Notably, our research highlights the limitations of the eye-mind hypothesis: direct fixations on a figure are not always needed for its theoretical perception and, the other way around, a fixation position may indicate the comparison of a broad extrafoveal region with an anticipatory image.

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Thinking with other minds

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 publications

All Affordances Are Social: Foundations of a Gibsonian Social Ontology

All Affordances Are Social: Foundations of a Gibsonian Social Ontology

Easy as 1, 2, 3: On the Short History of the Use of Affordance in Active Inference

Eye movements in the development of geometric shape recognition: from sensory-motor processes to theoretical perception

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