ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author analyses the extent to which the idea of environmental guiding supports a nonrepresentational account of online action. He begins his discussion with Anthony Chemero's definition of affordances and then analyses two situations: one in which the environmental details that "solicit" the action are the objects of an unspecified situation, and the other in which environmental details are the features of unspecified situations. In both cases, the author identifies the representations at work: recognitional representations in the first case and representations for action in the second case. Ever since J. Gibson's work in 1986, affordances have been understood as possibilities for action, directly perceivable by the agent. Though H. Dreyfus speaks about learned abilities, the tendency is to generalize this argument and use it for all kinds of online action, autonomous robotics, cognitive psychology, or philosophy of mind.
