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(2018) Synthese 195 (12).
Action, affordances, and anorexia
body representation and basic cognition
Stephen Gadsby , Daniel Williams
pp. 5297-5317
We evaluate a growing trend towards anti-representationalism in cognitive science in the context of recent research into the development and maintenance of anorexia nervosa in cognitive neuropsychiatry. We argue two things: first, that this research relies on an explanatorily robust concept of representation—the concept of a long-term body schema; second, that this body representation underlies our most basic environmental interactions and affordance perception—the psychological phenomena supposed to be most hospitable to a non-representationalist treatment.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-1843-3
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Gadsby, S. , Williams, D. (2018). Action, affordances, and anorexia: body representation and basic cognition. Synthese 195 (12), pp. 5297-5317.
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