A Social Enactive Theory of Perception

The social dimension of human life shapes or constitutes what perception is for us, that is, how we perceptually relate to the world.

>Bringing social philosophy together with philosophy of mind and taking the next step in enactivist philosophy, this theory accounts for the social aspects of everyday experience. With influences from Wittgensteinian pragmatism, phenomenology, and analytic philosophy of perception, as well as engagement with social psychology, social cognition studies, and work in neuroscience, the book synthesizes different layers at work in perception, with a particular focus on non-visual senses. It explains the role of perception in the economy of social identities and thus links the individual with the social in a constitutive way.