The Bodily Self : Selected Essays /

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"These essays explore how the rich and sophisticated forms of self-consciousness with which we are most familiar -- as philosophers, psychologists, and as ordinary, reflective individuals -- depend on a complex underpinning that has been largely invisible to students of the self and self-consci...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bermúdez, Jose Luis (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Self (Philosophy)
Self-consciousness (Awareness)
Mind and body.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Conscience de soi.
Moi (Philosophie)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : understanding the bodily self
  • Nonconceptual self-consciousness and cognitive science
  • Ecological perception and the notion of a nonconceptual point of view
  • The sources of self-consciousness
  • The elusiveness thesis, immunity to error through misidentification, and privileged access
  • The phenomenology of bodily awareness
  • Bodily awareness and self-consciousness
  • Bodily ownership, bodily awareness, and knowledge without observation
  • Ownership and the space of the body
  • Bodily ownership, psychological ownership, and psychopathology
  • The bodily self, commonsense psychology, and the springs of action
  • Afterword : looking ahead.

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