PERCEPTION AND SPATIAL THOUGHT: THE REDUCTIONIST VEIN OF THE ENACTIVE APPROACH

In this paper I explore a certain reductionist thread in Noe's enactive approach. First I argue that his view about our perceptual encounter with the intrinsic properties of objects demands a revisionist relational metaphysics to be successful. Then, I argue that Noe's account of the explanatory role of perception in spatial thought requires a revisionist view about our everyday spatial concepts. Finally, I suggest that at the basis of these forms of revisionism there is a reductionist understanding of perceptual egocentricity that must be abandoned for the sake of a more substantive account of perception and its explanatory role in thought.