Andrew D Wilson

LATEST ARTICLES ( 218 )

• Lecture 26: Strong Anticipation and Direct Perception (Turvey, 2019, Lectures...

  In this final chapter, Turvey lays out the basics of the ecological approach to coordinating action with respect to the future. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2026 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 25: The Mechanical Basis for "Getting About Among Things" (Turvey,...

  This chapter is about the mechanical consequences of interacting with the environment; what happens when we come into physical contact with things. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2026 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 24: Perceiving "How to Get About Among Things" (Turvey, 2019, Lectures o...

  This chapter focuses on the perception side of the perception-action system we will end up with for behaviour. It covers the objects of perception (affordances)... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2026 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 23: Ecological Optics Primer (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

  The 'barrage of conceptual details that was Lecture 22' has provided us with the notion of affordances, and these are to be the objects of both perception and... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2026 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 22: Ontology at the Ecological Scale (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on...

  After a book length set of preliminaries, we are finally getting to the meat of the positive case the ecological approach has to make. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2026 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 21: Barriers to Ecological Realism (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

  Last Lecture Turvey introduced the notion of ecological realism; realism that has a species-dependence to it. Normally a realism is for everyone, but different... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2026 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 20: Ecology: The Science That Reasons Why (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on...

  Turvey has finally arrived at the ecological approach, but all the preceding chapters have made it such that there are preliminaries to deal with first. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2026 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 19: Reflections on the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis (Turvey, 2019,...

  The final lecture about the computational-representational perspective is focused on the general claim that intelligent action can arise from a computer,... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2026 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 18: Turing Reductionism, Token Physicalism: The Computational System...

  We have encountered the idea in Lectures 6 and 16 that perception might be formalised as a form of computation, and that this might be the step that enables... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2026 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 17: Pattern Recognition and Representation Bearers (Turvey, 2019,...

  Last Lecture Turvey reviewed the basics of the computational approach, and highlighted again how it is just the latest iteration of the Cartesian programme. Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2026 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Radical Embodied Memory (Wilford & Anderson, 2025)

  

  Of all the representation-hungry problems out there, memory seems to be the hungriest. It is clearly a fact that we can organise our present behaviour with... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2025 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 16: The Computational-Representational Perspective: Preliminaries...

  The next four Lectures are specifically focused on the modern form of the Cartesian programme - the computational-representational approach. Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2025 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 15: Gestaltism III: Experience Error, CNS Error, Psych-neural...

  The two previous lectures reviewed some of the changes happening in related fields to psychology that were showing up in Gestalt psychology, specifically the... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2025 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 14: Gestaltism II: Fields, Self-Organization, and the Invariance...

  In the previous Lecture, Turvey discussed the machine metaphor in which things are just equal to the sum of their parts. In this Lecture, Turvey introduces the... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2025 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 13: Gestaltism I: Atomism, Anatomism, and Mechanical Order (Turvey, 2019...

  We are nearing the end of the Foundational Concepts section of the book, and we have arrived at one final historical attempts to explain perception; the... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2025 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 12: The Space Enigmas IV: On Learning Space Perception (Turvey, 2019,...

  This Lecture is in roughly two parts. The first brief section walks through a Helmhotzian method for perceiving depth via unconscious inference. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2025 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 11: Doctrines of Sensations and Unconscious Inferences (Turvey, 2019,...

  This Lecture is about Helmholtz, and his theory of sensations being integrated into perceptual experience via unconscious inference. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2025 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 10: The Space Enigmas III: Local Signs and Geometrical Empiricism...

  The previous two lectures have covered aspects of the problem of space perception. We perceive objects, and these inhabit space - they are at some distance... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2025 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Generative AI Pushes Outcome Over Process (And This Is Why I Hate It)

  I really hate generative AI, because there are many reasons to hate it. It's abilities depend on stolen data; it uses so much electricity it's messing with... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2024 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Do Affordances Select Or Control Actions?

  I've been working for a while to connect the perception of affordances to motor abundance methods such as the uncontrolled manifold. Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2023 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE