PART I: Ontology and Epistemology of Affordances
1. Why It Matters That Affordances Are Relations
2. The Sociomaterial Theory of Affordances
3. When It Comes to Affordances, What Do Animals Know and How Do They Know It?
4. Mental Action and the Scope of Affordance Perception
5. An Affordance-Based Approach to the Origins of Concepts
6. Toward an Ecological Theory of Time PART II: The Role of Exploratory Activity and Scale in Perception of Affordances
7. The Dynamics of Affordance Emergence and Perception
8. Description of the World That Agential Systems Fit Into
9. The Role of Exploratory Activity in Affordance Perception
10. Scaling Up: Lawfulness of Affordances Requires Independence From Any Single “Scale of Behavior” PART III: Affordances Through the Lens of Neuroscience
11. Affordance Switching in Self-Organizing Brain-Body-Environment Systems
12. What Is NExT for Affordances? Taking Brains Seriously in Organism-Environment Systems
13. Affordance and Tool Use: A Neurocognitive Approach
14. From Turing to Gibson: Implications of Affordances for the Sciences of Organisms PART IV: Applications of the Ecological Theory of Affordances
15. Understanding Skilled Adaptive Behavior: The Role of Action, Perception and Cognition in an Ecological Dynamics Perspective
16. Disability Through the Lens of Affordances: A Promising Pathway for Transforming Physical Therapy Practice
17. “I Got All I Need to Know About Affordances From Norman”: What Engineers, Designers, and Architects Need to Know About Affordances
18. Perception of Affordances in Interaction With Autonomous Systems
19. On Affordances and Their Entailment for Autonomous Robotic Systems