The Body and the Self brings together recent work by philosophers and psychologists on the nature of self-consciousness, the nature of bodily awareness, and the relation between the two. The central problem addressed is How is our grasp of ourselves as one object among others underpinned by the ways in which we use and represent our bodies? The contributors take up such issues as How should we characterize the various distinctive ways we have of being in touch with our own bodies in sensation, proprioception, and action? How exactly does our grip on our bodies as objects connect with our ability to perceive the external environment, and with our ability to engage in various forms of social interaction? Can any of these ways of representing our bodies affect a bridge between body and self?
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"This collection provides the latest thinking by philosophers andpsychologists on bodily awareness and self consciousness. It isessential reading for anyone interested in matters of consciousness,the self, and the development of the self concept." Josef Perner , Institut für Psychologie,Universität Salzburg
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José Luis Bermúdez is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Anthony Marcel is a Senior Scientist in the Applied Psychology Unit at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge. Naomi Eilan is a Senior Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge University.
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To begin, we should have before us the rudiments of Descartes's famous argument to the conclusion that he was a purely mental entity, an argument commonly referred to as the cogito. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
place reidentification, introspective proprioception, oneself qua subject, temporally extended point, error through misidentification relative, material object among others, specific body sense, nonconceptual point, brain zap, logical immunity, internal causal connectedness, perspectival contents, demonstrative judgments, exocentric frame, sufficiency component, body linage, located sensations, indexical notions, body schemata, deafferented patients, visual proprioception, somatic attention, spatial content, perceptual tracking, materialist opponent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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place reidentification, introspective proprioception, oneself qua subject, temporally extended point, error through misidentification relative, material object among others, specific body sense, nonconceptual point, brain zap, logical immunity, internal causal connectedness, perspectival contents, demonstrative judgments, exocentric frame, sufficiency component, body linage, located sensations, indexical notions, body schemata, deafferented patients, visual proprioception, somatic attention, spatial content, perceptual tracking, materialist opponent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Basil Blackwell, Clarendon Press, Bill Brewer, Naomi Eilan, New York, Lawrence Erlbaum, The Varieties of Reference, Child Development, Brian O'Shaughnessy, John Campbell, Basic Books, Gareth Evans, Tony Marcel, University of Chicago Press, Duquesne University Press, Ian Waterman, Michael Martin, Spatial Thinking, The Role of Physical Objects, Andrew Meltzoff, Aristotelian Society Proceedings, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Conceptual Clarification New!
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- The Varieties of Reference (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Gareth Evans on 11 pages
- The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception by James J. Gibson on 7 pages
- Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty on 6 pages
- The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Peter Strawson on 4 pages
- Spatial Representation: Problems in Philosophy and Psychology by Naomi Eilan on 4 pages
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- An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy) by E. J. Lowe on page 270
- Thinking without Words (Philosophy of Mind Series) by Josï¿1/2 Luis Bermï¿1/2dez in Back Flap
- Performance Research: On Ritual by Ric Allsopp on page 13
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