Alejandro Arango

In my philosophical work, I study the social aspects of perception and the role of aspects and perspectives in all the sensory modalities (i.e., the different senses). I have written on (and continue to explore) the idea that human perception is a type of socially constituted, direct interaction with the world. This is a type of relationalism about perception that is best labeled as a social enactivism about perception (SEP).

In social epistemology, I am interested in exploring how sensory perception underscores a good deal of our social interactions with others. At the moment, I am working on an article that looks at the problem of other minds through the lens of high-level perceptual properties. I am also working on an article that, taking into account that social identities partly appear to us perceptually, explores some epistemological implications of this perceptual aspect.