HEIDEGGER’S EQUIPMENT VS. GIBSON’S AFFORDANCES. WHY THEY DIFFER AND HOW THEY ARTICULATE

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB PHILOSOPHIA, Volume 66 (LXVI), No. 2 Supplement, October 2021, pp. 33-54, DOI: 10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.03en-US
dc.creatorDECLERCK, Gunnar
dc.date2021-10-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T10:38:44Z
dc.descriptionMy main objective in this article will be to compare Heidegger’s description of the way we perceive our environment in everyday coping – which is based on the concept of equipment (Zeug) – and James Gibson’s theory of affordance perception. More precisely, I will discuss whether equipment and affordance can be equated. In contrast to some interpretations, I will defend that they cannot: equipment and affordances refer to different ontological kinds and the perceptual or cognitive processes that are implied in each case have nothing in common. In addition, I will defend that distinguishing equipment and affordances is a key step towards a more comprehensive account of the way we perceive and deal with the possibilities offered by our environment, and that Heidegger’s and Gibson’s accounts, far from being mutually exclusive, complement each other. Some work has however to be done in order to articulate them in a coherent theoretical framework.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/345
dc.identifier10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.03
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/939
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/345/322
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2021 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophiaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia; Volume 66, No. 2 Supplement, October 2021; 33-54en-US
dc.source2065-9407
dc.source10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s
dc.subjectHeidegger, Gibson, affordance, equipment, perception.en-US
dc.subjectThis article is an elaboration on ideas that I have presented in Declerck (2020).en-US
dc.titleHEIDEGGER’S EQUIPMENT VS. GIBSON’S AFFORDANCES. WHY THEY DIFFER AND HOW THEY ARTICULATEen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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