Abstract

Interdisciplinary interest in affordances is increasing. This paper is a philosophical contribution. The question is: Do persons offer affordances? Analysis of the concepts ‘person’ and ‘affordance’ supports an affirmative answer. On a widely accepted understanding of what persons are, persons exhibit many of the features typical of socionormative affordances. However, to understand persons as offering affordances requires, on the face of it, stretching traditional understandings of the concept of affordance: persons, in contrast to the organisms that partially constitute persons, do not seem to be available to perception. This and similar worries are responded to.

摘要

对津贴的跨学科兴趣正在增加。本文是哲学的贡献。问题是：人们提供津贴吗？对“人”和“负担”概念的分析支持肯定的回答。在对人是什么的广泛理解之后，人展现出社会规范能力的许多典型特征。然而，从表面上看，要理解人是提供提供的东西，就需要扩展对提供概念的传统理解：与部分构成人的有机体相反，人们似乎无法感知。对此以及类似的担忧得到了回应。