Ecological Psychology: The Consequence of a Commitment to Realism

Abstract

Science assumes a real world whose existence is not a matter of mental fabrication. Animals, by further assumption, are said to know this reality, at least in part. They know those aspects of the world that bear on their individual existences; and what one (kind of) animal needs to know, another (kind of) animal need not. Though the claim is easy to make—that an animal is perceptually in contact with reality—it is not a claim that can easily be defended. Realism as a philosophical point of view has required constant and sophisticated defense.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 91 citations exist upstream.