A Social Enactive Theory of Perception: Perceptual Practices, Direct Perception, and A World of Aspects

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 ...