Affordances

My enactivist approach has been heavily influenced by ecological psychology and the concept of affordances. I have worked on clarification of the role of affordances in various domains.

Affordances in VR:

Rucińska, Z. (2024). Embodied and Enactive Imagination in VR. Journal of the Philosophy of Games, Vol. 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.5617/jpg.10633 https://journals.uio.no/JPG/article/view/10633

Affordances in Sport:

Rucińska, Z. (2021). Enactive planning in rock climbing: recalibration, visualization and nested affordances. Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03025-7

Rucińska, Z., & Ravn, S. (2024). Embodied cognition and movement-driven practices. In Shapiro, L. & Spaulding, S. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition, vol.II (pp. 322-333). Routledge.

Affordances in Daniel Dennett's work

Rucińska, Z. (2020). Affordances in Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back. Avant, Vol. XI, No. 2 (1-11). https://doi.org/10.26913/avant.2020.02.05

Dennett's reply: https://avant.edu.pl/en/2020-02-14

Affordances in Pretend Play:

Rucińska, Z. (2022). Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism. Theory & Psychology 32(2), 202–220. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543211053815

Rucińska, Z. (2022). Can role-playing be wrong? An analysis of normativity of play from the perspective of the Enactive Cognitive Science. In Koubová, A., Urban, P., Russell, W., & MacLean, M. (Eds.). Play and Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 51-69). New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780367641276

Rucińska, Z. (2017). The Role of Affordances in Pretend Play. In C. Durt, T. Fuchs, & C. Tewes (Eds.), Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture: Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World (pp. 257-277). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035552.003.0015