JoLMA The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts

Journal | JoLMA
Monographic journal issue | 1 | 2 | 2020
Research Article | Emoting the Situated Mind

Emoting the Situated Mind

A Taxonomy of Affective Material Scaffolds

Abstract

Existing accounts of cognitive artefacts are a useful starting point for developing the emerging notion of situated affectivity. Starting from a recent taxonomy of cognitive artefacts, I propose a taxonomy of material affective scaffolds (material objects that we use to support, shape and more generally regulate our affective states). I distinguish representational material affective scaffolds (divided into iconic, indexical and symbolic ones) from nonrepresentational ones (psychoactive and sensory ones). I conclude by pointing out that the resulting taxonomy is based not only on properties of objects but also on the user’s stance towards objects, which in turn depends on other contextual factors.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: July 13, 2020 | Accepted: Nov. 2, 2020 | Published Dec. 9, 2020 | Language: en

Keywords AffectivitySymbolsPeirceCognitive ArtefactsRepresentationsScaffolded CognitionEmotion


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