Mind the Body by Frédérique (Frederique) de Vignemont (.PDF)
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Mind the Body: An Exploration of Bodily Self-Awareness by Frédérique de Vignemont
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Overview: Mind the Body provides the first comprehensive treatment of bodily awareness and of the sense of bodily ownership, combining philosophical analysis with recent experimental results from cognitive science. Our own body seems to be the object that we know the best for we constantly receive a flow of internal information about it. Yet bodily awareness has attracted little attention in the literature, possibly because it seems reducible to William James’s
description of a ‘feeling of the same old body always there’. But it is not true that our body always feels so familiar. In particular, puzzling neurological disorders and new bodily illusions raise a wide range of questions about the relationship between the body and the self.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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