Further steps towards an enactivist pragmatist theory of picture perception

Abstract

How does picture perception work? This paper suggests the outline of an enactivist and pragmatist account of picture perception. After discussing representationalist interpretations of the phenomenon, I claim that picture perception is a form of visuomotor reenactment scaffolded by the picture. In the last part of the paper, I show how this account practically works. This hypothesis might be a theoretical framework for future empirical research.