TY - JOUR T1 - The Environment and Its Ontological Status JF - Organon F Y1 - 2016 A1 - Italia, Salvatore KW - Affordances KW - environment KW - natural selection KW - niche construction KW - realism AB - Is reality a ‘Ready-Made World’ or an entity constructed by individuals and social activity? The concept of the environment seems to be the boundary that clearly shows how we can simultaneously adhere to our apparently contradictory intuitions— that is, those about the external and autonomous features of reality independent of human intervention, and those about its undeniably constructed character. The environment, then, seems to be a concept that shows how non-epistemic and epistemic notions of reality (i.e. respectively seeing reality as independent from and dependent on us) can be understood cohesively. IS - 4 VL - 23 SP - 488-502 UR - http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2016/4/488-502.pdf U2 - Articles U3 - 488502 TI - The Environment and Its Ontological Status ER -