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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Action, affordances, and anorexia

body representation and basic cognition

Stephen Gadsby Daniel Williams

pp. 5297-5317

Abstract

We evaluate a growing trend towards anti-representationalism in cognitive science in the context of recent research into the development and maintenance of anorexia nervosa in cognitive neuropsychiatry. We argue two things: first, that this research relies on an explanatorily robust concept of representation—the concept of a long-term body schema; second, that this body representation underlies our most basic environmental interactions and affordance perception—the psychological phenomena supposed to be most hospitable to a non-representationalist treatment.

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Published in:

(2018) Synthese 195 (12).

Pages: 5297-5317

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-1843-3

Full citation:

Gadsby Stephen, Williams Daniel (2018) „Action, affordances, and anorexia: body representation and basic cognition“. Synthese 195 (12), 5297–5317.