Affordances and Other

My enactivist approach has been heavily influenced by ecological psychology and the concept of affordances. I have worked on clarification of the role of affordances in various domains.

My other publications include a book review and (collaborative) work on cognitive mechanisms, and ethics and normativity of play. I even have a pending paper on radically embodied introspection!

Affordances in mental health (suicidality):

Rucińska, Z., Asma, L., & Coninx, S. (in press). Situated suicidality: taking the environment seriously. Exploring Suicidal Ambivalence. Routledge.

Affordances in VR:

Rucińska, Z. (2024). Embodied and Enactive Imagination in VR. Journal of the Philosophy of Games, Vol. 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.5617/jpg.10633 https://journals.uio.no/JPG/article/view/10633

Affordances in Sport:

Rucińska, Z. (2021). Enactive planning in rock climbing: recalibration, visualization and nested affordances. Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03025-7

Rucińska, Z., & Ravn, S. (2024). Embodied cognition and movement-driven practices. In Shapiro, L. & Spaulding, S. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition, vol.II (pp. 322-333). Routledge.

Affordances in Daniel Dennett's work

Rucińska, Z. (2020). Affordances in Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back. Avant, Vol. XI, No. 2 (1-11). https://doi.org/10.26913/avant.2020.02.05

See also Dennett's reply!: https://avant.edu.pl/en/2020-02-14

Affordances in Pretend Play:

Rucińska, Z. (2022). Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism. Theory & Psychology 32(2), 202–220. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543211053815

Rucińska, Z. (2022). Can role-playing be wrong? An analysis of normativity of play from the perspective of the Enactive Cognitive Science. In Koubová, A., Urban, P., Russell, W., & MacLean, M. (Eds.). Play and Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 51-69). New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780367641276

Rucińska, Z. (2017). The Role of Affordances in Pretend Play. In C. Durt, T. Fuchs, & C. Tewes (Eds.), Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture: Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World (pp. 257-277). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035552.003.0015

Other texts include work on normativity of role-playing ...

Rucińska, Z. (2022). Can role-playing be wrong? An analysis of normativity of play from the perspective of the Enactive Cognitive Science. In Koubová, A., Urban, P., Russell, W., & MacLean, M. (Eds.). Play and Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 51-69). New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780367641276

... book review of Shaun Gallagher's Enactivist Interventions...

Rucińska, Z. (2019). Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind. A book review. Avant, Vol. X, No. 3/2019. https://doi.org/10.26913/avant.2019.03.01

... two papers on mechanistic explanations...

Miłkowski, M., Clowes, R.W., Rucińska, Z., Przegalińska, A., Zawidzki, T., Gies, A., Krueger, J., McGann, M., Afeltowicz, Ł., Wachowski, W.M., Stjernberg, F., Loughlin, V., Hohol, M. (2018). From Wide Cognition to Mechanisms: A Silent Revolution. Frontiers in Psychology 9/2393: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02393

Rucińska, Z. (2016). Enactive Mechanism of Make-Belief Games. In P. Turner (Ed.), Digital Make-Believe (pp. 141-160). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29553-4_9

... and one on radically embodied introspection, co-authored with Marco Facchin and Thomas Fondelli! (under review now, but see the preprint here)