Resumen de Dispositions, Affordances and Mental Intentionality
Manuel Heras Escribano, Manuel de Pinedo
In this paper we defend a bottom-up approach for explaining the ontological grounds of perception and cognition. We start by exploring some consequences of defending a realist conception of dispositions and we accept the thesis that dispositions display ‘physical intentionality’ (PI). Then we show how PI fits within ecological psychology’s understanding of perceptual processes. Further, we defend a normative approach to the mental by which mental intentionality is nothing but rule-following: from a normative perspective there is a small set of dispositions accepted by the community, and this set is what shapes the life and practices of the individual. Finally, we will suggest that an understanding of normativity is enough for understanding consciousness.
