Picturing Organisms and Their Environments: Interaction, Transaction, and Constitution Loops

Frontiers in Psychology

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Ezequiel A. Di Paolo¹ 

[1] Basque Foundation for Science;Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex, United Kingdom;IAS-Research, University of the Basque Country

关键词: organism–environment relation;    diagrams;    schematic representation;    interaction;    transaction;    constitution;    enaction;    ecological psychology;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01912

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Changing conceptions of the relation between organisms and their environments make up a crucial chapter in the history of psychology. This may be approached by a comparative study of how schematic diagrams portray this relation. Diagrams drive the communication and the teaching of ideas, the sedimentation of epistemic norms and methods of analysis, and in some cases the articulation of novel concepts through pictographic variants. Through a sampling of schematic representations, I offer a concise comparison of how different authors, with different interests and motivations, have portrayed important aspects of the organism–environment relation. I compare example diagrams according to the features they underscore (or omit) and group them into classes that emphasize interaction, transaction, and constitution loops.

【 授权许可】

CC BY