Action at First Sight

The usual formulation of Molyneux’s question (MQ) famously asks whether a newly sighted
subject might immediately recognize, by sight alone, shapes that were already familiar to her from
a tactile point of view. Due to the complex nature of visual recognition, such a question can be
considered with diff erent methodologies, both empirical and conceptual (Jacomuzzi et al. 2003 ;
Occelli 2014 ; Degenaar and Lokhorst 2014 ; Degenaar 1996 ; Glenney 2013 ; Ferretti 2017c , 2019a ;
Toribio, Chapter 16) giving way to many diff erent formulations (Matthen and Cohen 2019 ).
In this chapter, I focus on a rather neglected formulation of the question, concerning action
processing. In the fi rst part of the chapter, I present and review possible answers to such a formulation of the question, only recently discussed in the literature. In the second part I off er brand
new insights on this analysis, starting from new assumptions on the way vision- for- action works.