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.