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The body and the self / edited by Jos�e Luis Berm�udez, Anthony Marcel, and Naomi Eilan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Bradford bookPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 376 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058502183X
  • 9780585021836
  • 9780262023863
  • 0262023865
  • 0262268264
  • 9780262268264
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Body and the self.DDC classification:
  • 128 20
LOC classification:
  • BF697.5.B63 B6 1995eb
NLM classification:
  • 1996 M-656
  • BF 697.5.B63
Other classification:
  • B089. 3
  • 08.36
  • 77.52
  • CC 6600
  • CR 6000
  • CR 7000
  • CV 3000
  • 5,1
Online resources:
Contents:
Self-consciousness and the body: an interdisciplinary introduction -- The body image and self-consciousness -- Infants' understanding of people and things: from body imitation to folk psychology -- Persons, animals, and bodies -- An ecological perspective on the origins of self -- Objectivity, causality, and agency at two with nature: agency and the development of self-world dualism -- Ecological perception and the notion of a nonconceptual point of view -- Proprioception and the body image -- Awareness of one's own body: an attentional theory of its nature, development, and brain basis -- Body schema and intentionality -- Living without touch and peripheral information about body position and movement -- Bodily awareness: a sense of ownership bodily awareness and the self introspection and bodily self-ascription -- Consciousness and the self.
Summary: 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?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Self-consciousness and the body: an interdisciplinary introduction -- The body image and self-consciousness -- Infants' understanding of people and things: from body imitation to folk psychology -- Persons, animals, and bodies -- An ecological perspective on the origins of self -- Objectivity, causality, and agency at two with nature: agency and the development of self-world dualism -- Ecological perception and the notion of a nonconceptual point of view -- Proprioception and the body image -- Awareness of one's own body: an attentional theory of its nature, development, and brain basis -- Body schema and intentionality -- Living without touch and peripheral information about body position and movement -- Bodily awareness: a sense of ownership bodily awareness and the self introspection and bodily self-ascription -- Consciousness and the self.

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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?

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