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The Subject's Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body
Contributor(s): de Vignemont, Frederique (Editor), Alsmith, Adrian J. T. (Editor)
ISBN: 0262036835     ISBN-13: 9780262036832
Publisher: MIT Press
OUR PRICE:   $44.55  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: December 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Mind & Body
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Philosophy | Movements - Humanism
Dewey: 128.6
LCCN: 2017010147
Series: Representation and Mind
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.45 lbs) 424 pages
 
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An interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-consciousness, considering representation of the body, the sense of bodily ownership, and representation of the self.

The body may be the object we know the best. It is the only object from which we constantly receive a flow of information through sight and touch; and it is the only object we can experience from the inside, through our proprioceptive, vestibular, and visceral senses. Yet there have been very few books that have attempted to consolidate our understanding of the body as it figures in our experience and self-awareness. This volume offers an interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-awareness, the first book to do so since the landmark 1995 collection The Body and the Self, edited by Jos Berm dez, Naomi Eilan, and Anthony Marcel (MIT Press). Since 1995, the study of the body in such psychological disciplines as cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and neuropsychology has advanced dramatically, accompanied by a resurgence of philosophical interest in the significance of the body in our mental life. The sixteen specially commissioned essays in this book reflect the advances in these fields. The book is divided into three parts, each part covering a topic central to an explanation of bodily self-awareness: representation of the body; the sense of bodily ownership; and representation of the self.

Contributors
Adrian Alsmith, Brianna Beck, Jos Luis Berm dez, Anna Berti, Alexandre Billon, Andrew J. Bremner, Lucilla Cardinali, Tony Cheng, Fr d rique de Vignemont, Francesca Fardo, Alessandro Farn , Carlotta Fossataro, Shaun Gallagher, Francesca Garbarini, Patrick Haggard, Jakob Hohwy, Matthew R. Longo, Tamar Makin, Marie Martel, Melvin Mezue, John Michael, Christopher Peacocke, Lorenzo Pia, Louise Richardson, Alice C. Roy, Manos Tsakiris, Hong Yu Wong

Contributor Bio(s): Alsmith, Adrian J. T.: - Adrian Alsmith is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen.Putnam, Hilary: - Hilary Putnam was Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Mathematical Logic at Harvard University.Block, Ned: - Ned Block is Silver Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at New York University and was Chair of the Philosophy Program at MIT from 1990 to 1995. He is a coeditor of The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates (MIT Press, 1997).Vignemont, Frederique de: - Frédérique de Vignemont is the CNRS Research Director at the Institute Jean Nicod.