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The body and the self
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Cambridge, MA : A Bradford Book, 1995
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9780262023863

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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?


Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Self-Consciousness and the Body: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
1 Self-Consciousness and the Body
2 Substantive Self-Consciousness
Representing Objects, Other Persons, and Oneself
Self and the Environment
3 Bodily Awareness
The Senses of 'Proprioception'
Representations of the Body
Phenomenology and Spatial Content
Representation, Phenomenology, and Substantive Self-Consciousness
4 I-as-Subject, Ownership, and Elusiveness of Self
References
The Body Image and Self-Consciousness
1 Reference and Conceptual Role
2 Body Image and Body Schema
3 The Token-Reflexive Rule
4 Psychological Structure over Time
5 The Social Dimension of Causal Role
Acknowledgments
Infants' Understanding of People and Things: From Body Imitation to Folk Psychology
1 Early Understanding of Physical Objects
Identity
Human Bodies as Objects
The Problem of Imitation
Innate Imitation: Strong Nativism
The Intentional Nature of Imitation
The Interpretive Nature of Imitation
2 Infants' Conception of Persons
Identity for Human Individuals
Developing Objectivity about Persons
Developing Subjectivity for Persons: Early Folk Psychology
3 Concepts of the Self and the Other
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Persons, Animals, and Bodies
1 Animalism and the Source of the Problem
2 Another Difficult Case
3 Some Responses
4 The Possibility of''Brain Zaps"
5 Split Brains
6 A General Argument
7 A Hybrid Account
8 Some Difficulties
9 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
An Ecological Perspective on the Origins of Self
1 The Ecological Approach to Self
2 Some Implications of the Ecological Approach to the Origins of Self
3 Visual Proprioception and Posture
4 Direct Perception and the Interpersonal Self
5 Direct Perception and the Core Sense of Self
Note
References
Objectivity, Causality, and Agency
1 The Pragmatist Argument
2 Objects as Causes
3 Bodily Power
4 The Harmony Requirement
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
At Two with Nature: Agency and the Development of Self-World Dualism
1 Weakening the Piagetian Thesis
2 What Agency Gives Us
3 Object Occlusion and Object Permanence
4 Self-World Dualism and a Conception of Other Minds
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Ecological Perception and the Notion of a Nonconceptual Point of View
1 The Ecological View of Perception
2 Ecological Perception and the Notion of Point of View
3 Awareness of Action and Points of View
4 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Proprioception and the Body Image
1 Is Proprioception a True Perceiving?
2 Proprioception and the Attention
Proprioceptive Attending in Physical Instrumental Action
Proprioceptive Attending and the Whole Body
3 The Short-Term Body Image
The Distinction Between Short-Term and Long-Term Body Image
Three Different Kinds of Short-Term Body Image
The Constitutive Raw Material of Body Images
4 The Long-Term Body Image
A Conceptual Preamble
The Origin of the Concept of a Long-Term Body Image
Filling in the Concept of the Long-Term Image
The Type and Ontological Status of the Long-Term Body Image
5 Is the Long-Term Body Image an A Priori Postulate?
Notes
References
Awareness of One's Own Body: An Attentional Theory of Its Nature, Development, and Brain Basis
1 Impairments of Bodily Awareness
2 When Does One Attend to the Relative Disposition of One's
3 How Does One Focus Attention on a Body Part?
4 Why Are There No Local Autotopagnosias?
5 Is There a General Autotopagnosia?
6 Opposing-Processor Imbalance and Impaired Body Awareness
7 What Explains the Indifference and Denial Syndromes?
8 To What Does One Attend When One Attends to the Body?
9 A Body Scheme Acquisition Device?
10 A Body-Image-Acquisition Device
11 The Self as Emerging from Background Body Sensation
12 Body Sensation, Episodic Memory, and the Self
13 How Are Body Parts Represented?
14 Conclusions
References
Body Schema and Intentionality
1 Body Image and Body Schema: A Clarification of Some
2 Intentionality and the Prenoetic Body: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
3 Body Schema and Physiology
4 Recent Psychological Studies and Implications for Cognitive Science
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Living without Touch and Peripheral Information about Body Position and Movement: Studies with Deaff...
1 Touch, Proprioception, and the Peripheral Nervous System
2 The Physiological Loss in I.W. and G.L.
3 Case Histories
4 Strategies for Everyday Movement
5 Perceptual Frames of Reference
6 The Body-Schema Problem
7 The Problem of Morphokinesis versus Topokinesis
8 Production of Force and Corollary Discharge?
9 Some Consequences of Deafferentation on One's Approach to the World
10 Body Language
11 Views of Self and of Body Image
12 Unavoidable Limitations
13 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Bodily Awareness: A Sense of Ownership
1 A Phenomenological Sense of Ownership
2 The Sole Object of Awareness
3 Bodily Awareness and Self-Awareness
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Bodily Awareness and the Self
1 Evans's Antidote to Cartesianism
2 A Cartesian Response to Evans
3 The Nature and Spatial Content of Bodily Awareness: A More Direct Objection to Cartesian Dualism
4 Extending the Argument
5 A Cartesian Last Stand
6 Experience of Ownership and the Subject as Object
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Introspection and Bodily Self-Ascription
1 Introduction
2 The Elusiveness Thesis
3 Proprioception and Appropriation
4 The Body and the Self
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Consciousness and the Self
1 Points of View
2 The Ecological Self and Consciousness
3 Perceptual Consciousness and Attention
4 Implicit Self-Consciousness and Externality
Acknowledgments
References
Contributors
Index