The History and Philosophy of Ecological Psychology.

Ecological Psychology is an embodied, situated, and non-representational approach pioneered by J. J. Gibson and E.

Affordances and Landscapes: Overcoming the Nature-Culture Dichotomy through Niche Construction Theory.

In this paper we reject the nature-culture dichotomy by means of the idea of affordance or possibility for action, which has important implications for landscape theory. Our hypothesis is that, just as the idea of affordance can serve to overcome the subjective-objective dichotomy, the ideas of landscape and ecological niche, properly defined, would allow us to also transcend the nature-culture dichotomy. First, we introduce an overview of landscape theory, emphasizing processual landscape theory as the most suitable approach for satisfying both cultural and naturalist approaches.