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This introductory chapter provides the recent historical background for Gibson's Ecological Approach to perception and for the interviews assembled in this volume. The first half of the chapter singles out several ideas and conceptual advances that were essential for Gibson in the eventual development of his Ecological Approach to perception. They serve as “landmarks” along his path of discovery over time, and their examination is intended to orient the reader to the place of the Ecological Approach within the recent history of psychology. The second half of the chapter offers an overview of varied developments within the Ecological Approach in the decades immediately following Gibson's death in 1979 and as represented in the interviews collected for this volume. Rather than a single path of post-Gibsonian psychology, there have been several distinguishable lines of development that while, sharing essential assumptions, diverge somewhat in their goals and emphasis. As a result, newcomers to the field confront a variety of views rather than unified post-Gibsonian literature. The second half of the chapter then is intended to clarify for the reader the various lines of thinking and development that make up the landscape of post-Gibsonian thinking represented by these interviews.
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