Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Visual

There is a whole new “hermeneutics of vision” impacting on how we are to understand what human visual perception is about. That hermeneutics is embedded into scientific practices was already addressed by Heelan (1972, 1983a, b), and later also by Ihde (1998) in his Expanding Hermeneutics. Heelan for instance argued that “Mind resides in the knowing subject, which is embodied in the instrument conjoined to the biological organism of the scientist” (497). This last aspect, argued by Heelan, is of interest because it has entered a more contemporary discussion that is not only about extended cognition, Heelan’s point is also embraced by views like those found in “embodied enactive cognition”, as presented in Gallagher and Allen (2018).