A Social Enactive Theory of Perception
Perceptual Practices, Direct Perception, and a World of Aspects
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 30 April 2026
- ISBN 9781666924329
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 228.6x152.4 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 tables 700
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Short description:
The social dimension of human life shapes or constitutes what perception is for us, that is, how we perceptually relate to the world.
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The social dimension of human life shapes or constitutes what perception is for us, that is, how we perceptually relate to the world.
A Social Enactive Theory of Perception offers a unified study, in the enactivist tradition, of perception and its connection to sociality. Alejandro Arango looks for perception in the middle of everyday life and finds that perception is at home in perceptual practices, socially structured ways of relating to the perceptible world. These practices are attuned to different dimensions of human life, such as the cultural worlds of customs that play a role in our lives' unique character, aesthetic experience, interpersonal relations, and even social interactions that can be labeled welcoming and accepting, or racist and xenophobic. The book argues that although the perceiver is situated in relation to the world in many ways that influence perception, this does not entail a radical subjectivism. Rather, it shows that the world appears to perceivers in different ways or aspects since we relate differently to the same world The framework of perceptual practices can also be applied to our understanding of others, and the book argues that we understand others in part through perception. This framework allows us to understand others as bearers or social identities.
Bringing social philosophy together with philosophy of mind and taking the next step in enactivist philosophy, this theory accounts for the fundamental role of perception in the social aspect of everyday experience. With influences from Wittgensteinian pragmatism, phenomenology, and analytic philosophy of perception, as well as engagement with social psychology, social cognition studies, and work in neuroscience, the book synthesizes different layers at work in perception, paying important attention to the non-visual senses.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: The Enactivism of Perceptual Practices
Chapter 1. The Pragmatism of Practices
Chapter 2. The Performativity and Contextuality of Perceptual Practices
Chapter 3. The Expressivity and Normativity of Perceptual Practices
Chapter 4. On Being Perceptually Situated
Chapter 5. Enactivisms, Ecological Thinking, and Sociality
PART II: The World of Perception Is a World of Aspects
Chapter 6. Aspects Anywhere, Anytime, Any Way
Chapter 7. Directness and the Dependencies of Perception
PART III: Perceiving Others
Chapter 8. Others as Sui Generis Perceptual Objects
Chapter 9. From High-Level Perception to Direct Social Perception
Chapter 10. From Direct Social Perception to High-Level Perception
Chapter 11. Perception, Human Interaction, and Social Identities
References
Index
