Mind the Body: An Exploration of Bodily Self-awarenessOur 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. Mind the Body is the first comprehensive treatment of bodily awareness. Fr d rique de Vignemont seeks to answer questions such as: how do I perceive my body? How do I perceive other people's bodies? Can I really feel your pain? What makes me feel this specific body is my own? Why do I care about it? To what extent can I feel an avatar's body as my own? To answer these questions, we need a better understanding of the various aspects of bodily self-awareness, including the spatiality of bodily sensations, their multimodality, their role in social cognition, their relation to action, and to self-defence. This volume combines philosophical analysis with recent experimental results from cognitive science, leading us to question some of our most basic intuitions. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | |
List of Figures | |
List of Tables | |
Introduction | |
PART I Body Snatchers | |
Whose Body? | |
Over and Above Bodily Sensations | |
The Immunity of the Sense of Ownership | |
A Multimodal Account of Bodily Experience | |
My Body Among Other Bodies | |
Taxonomies of Body Representations | |
PART III Bodyguard | |
The Bodyguard Hypothesis | |
The Narcissistic Body | |
Bodily Illusions | |
Neurological and Psychiatric Bodily Disorders | |
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