Mind the Body: An Exploration of Bodily Self-Awareness

By Frederique de Vignemont

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.

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198858027
• ISBN13: 9780198858027
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"