Fixing Psychology

Andrew Wilson and I had a tiff on twitter about whether "Affordances" are by-definition "perceivable". Well... backing ...

In 1997, the journal Ecological Psychology published two issues in tribute to James Gibson's The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems...

Gibson’s 1966 book The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems recently turned 50. Two issues of the journal Ecological Psychology commemo...

Gibson’s 1966 book The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems recently turned 50. Two issues of the journal Ecological Psychology commemo...

Gibson’s 1966 book The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems recently turned 50. Two issues of the journal Ecological Psychology co...

My initial article connecting Holt and Ecological Psychology (see discussion here ) generated two comments. The comments covered many points...

I have a paper coming out in the next issue of Ecological Psychology. It is an article written for the 50th anniversary of Gibson's The ...

Continuing to unravel the problem of contrasting consciousness and behavior discussed in the prior post , Holt (1915). The influence on peop...

Recently Michael Turvey became an inaugural recipient of the Association for Psychological Science's Mentor Award. This is a much deserv...

This month's issue of the Review of General Psychology is a special issue on Unifying Approaches to Psychology . I highly recommend it!...

This post should have a subtitle. It should read: Could Affordances Structure Light? Ken Aizawa gets a 10-month-delayed response Last Apr...

I have never done haptic research, but it is a rapidly emerging part of Eco-Psych these days. I have seen many talks at conferences, and ove...

Warning: If you aren't interested in Ecological Psychology, this will probably be a boring post.... In past posts I talked about the t...

When I first started this blog, one of my ideas was to digitize my "most absurd article" and "most incoherent title" awa...

Continuing to try to organize interested people: Next year ICPA will be in Lisbon and APA will be in Hawaii. At ICPA I would love to try ...

Greetings noble readers! As you surely know, the International Conference on Perception and Action is in Lisbon, Portugal, July of next ye...

Continuing the theme of propping Ecological Psychology against its detractors through reference to American Philosophy. One challenge holds ...

Continuing the reply that I think should have been made to Fodor and Pylyshyn's 1981 attack on Ecological Psychology. In F&P's a...

In a prior post, I hummed a few bars of “ Ecological Psychology needs to be evaluated within the context of AmericanPhilosophy .” I then s...

After doing a mediocre job suggesting a that Gibson's needs to be defended from within the Pragmatism-lineage (as opposed to, say Desc...