In what follows, I will attempt to make good these claims by situating the concept of “structure” at the heart of the ecological program. This theory avoids the difficulty of explaining how the mind organizes holistic perceptions from atomic sensations. Hence, perceiving these properties is a matter of detecting the information available in the environment. In contrast, Gibson’s theory of direct perception states that the environment contains all of the information needed to specify its properties. On Descartes’ account, our perceptual awareness of reality comes through the representations we have formed of it within ourselves. He characterized this new theory as a version of direct perception in order to distinguish it from the traditional indirect approach of Rene Descartes. He offered an alternative theory of perception – one that could accommodate the experimental insights of contemporary research programs. Over the five decades of his distinguished career, Gibson brought new clarity to the old problems of the tradition. Writing in the vein of the American functionalists, and immersed in their profound sense of pragmatism, Gibson sought to establish a more rigorous foundation for the study of vision by reworking its most fundamental concepts. Gibson is one of the best known and perhaps most controversial visual theorists of the twentieth century.
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