Troski jako elementy kształtujące pole afordancji – realistyczno­‐krytyczne ujęcie podmiotowości z perspektywy ucieleśnienia

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse the concept of subjectivity and the category of concern in Margaret Archer’s critical realism from the
perspective of embodied cognition and the category of affordances. It explores the possibility of using the notions of affordances and field of affordances to describe the synchronic and diachronic relationship between the subject and the environment within critical realism. This perspective aligns with efforts to naturalize critical realism (Kaidesoja, 2013) and to highlight the role of non­‐​­ reflective determinants of behaviour within it (Tofilski, 2024). The article begins by outlining the fundamental assumptions: critical realism and the model of subjectivity proposed by Margaret Archer, with particular emphasis on concern and reflexivity as key elements shaping the subject in its relationship with the environment. It then presents more naturalistically oriented approaches within critical realism and their connections to embodied cognition. The final section focuses on the concept of a field of affordances and the mechanisms of its formation, illustrated by the example of addiction understood as a monopolization of the hierarchy of concerns. The conclusions indicate that integrating affordances into critical realism requires both modification of Archer’s original model of agency and the adoption of the concept of affordances in line with a moderate embodiment perspective — rather than James Gibson’s original proposal.