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In this chapter, I offer an overview of the main principles and innovations of ecological psychology. First, I introduce the central commitments: embodiment, situatedness, and non-representationalism. Then, I focus on the main concepts of the ecological approach (the organism–environment system, ecological information, and specificity), showing that affordances can only be properly understood within this ecological framework.
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Heras-Escribano, M. (2019). Ecological Psychology. In: The Philosophy of Affordances. New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98830-6_2
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