Situating Attention and Habit in the Landscape of Affordances
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia August 31, 2019 Elisa Magrì 5 citations
The paper argues that affordances—opportunities for action in the environment—can be understood as dispositions, contrary to some views in embodied cognition. It distinguishes habit from skill and reassesses the phenomenology of dispositions, proposing that dispositions are motivational factors depending on sensitivity to context clues (regulated by habit and attention) and the subject's positionality (inseparable from context-awareness). Drawing on Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, it contends that both elements support a dispositional view of affordances, reconciling relational and skill-based accounts.