# Knowing How to Possibly Act - Ryan Hickerson **Opening (not a real abstract):** Knowing How to Possibly Act: Alva Noë's Action in Perception Final Prepublication Draft for Philosophical Psychology 20(4), 2007 Ryan Hickerson Western Oregon University 345 N. Monmouth Ave. Monmouth, OR 97071 USA [email protected] I. Introduction Alva Noë is a modern-day empiricist. His book Action in Perception is chockablock with contemporary cognitive science; its preface and notes (not to mention general erudition) point to on-going collaboration with Evan Thompson, Kevin O’Regan, and Susan Hurley. Their research investigates the sensorimotor bases of consciousness, and Action in Perception is offered as its philosophical backdrop. As such, the book presents a series of ideas and interpretations that constitute what Noë calls the “enactive approach” to perception, many of which are explicitly **Authors:** [[Ryan Hickerson]]