Does Conditional Affordance Imply Representational Non-Conceptual Content?

Abstract

Jan Almäng believes that James J. Gibson’s notion of affordances offers a reason to reject John McDowell’s thesis that representational perceptual content is conceptual through and through. I argue that Almäng’s arguments for the claim that the perceptual content in which conditional affordances feature can be both representational and non-conceptual are questionable.

Key words： perceptual content; affordance; John McDowell; Jan Almäng