Place and placedness

Jeff Malpas

pp. 27-39

in: Annika Schlitte, Thomas Hünefeldt (eds), Situatedness and place, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

This paper explores the difference between the notions of place and placedness. This difference relates to an important point of differentiation between genuinely a topographical approach and those other approaches that tend to dominate in the existing literature, including approaches associated with "situated cognition'. If place is taken as the primary concept, as I argue it should be taken, then that means that being-placed, as it might be viewed as determinative of experience and cognition, has first to be understood in relation to place.