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Mike could you post an attachment of the review? Thanks Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 8:42 am Subject: [xmca] In-sight from Out-side To: "eXtended Mind, Culture,Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> > Martin sent me an interesting book review about james gibson. > Importantreading for those interested in the broad question of > cultural-historical > approaches to human nature and german-russian-american > connections in > particular, but the following statement really caught my attention: > > image had to be richer than empiricists generally thought it to be. > Gibson nonetheless remained a Berkleian until after his aviation > studies,which appeared in 1947. Though Lombardo does not say so, > this is eloquent > testimony to the power of Gibson's academic socialization. For > him as for > others, especially in the United States, being a laboratory > scientist meant > being an elementaristic empiricist. The impetus to rethinking > came only > from work in a nonlaboratory setting. With automotive engineer > LaurenceCrooks, Gibson had begun in 1938 to study the role of > perception in > practical > problems, such as driving a car. This work and his aviation > studies during > World War II impressed on Gibson the centrality of veridical > perception,and led eventually to his including the environment > and its structures in > perceptual theory. > > Sure enough coincides with my experience, and not only, I suspect. > mike > _______________________________________________ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca