eprintid: 10138473
rev_number: 23
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datestamp: 2021-12-13 15:50:02
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creators_name: Madden, R
title: Bodily awareness without the body
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C01
divisions: F16
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: This chapter explores the consequences for bodily awareness of a plausible and influential metaphysics of the
self. The first part of the chapter presents the animalist view that we are each identical to animals, and
clarifies its relation to superficially similar metaphysical claims made in terms of ‘one’s body’. Reasons are
given for animalists to adopt the anti-reificationist position that ‘one’s body’ is no more an independent entity
than ‘one’s mind’. Contrary reasons for reifying the body are found wanting. The second part of the chapter
proposes that bodily awareness should accordingly be conceived, not as awareness of an entity called one’s
body, but as an animal’s awareness of its own non-psychological condition. It is argued that this animal selfmonitoring conception supports the view that bodily awareness is a form of self-awareness, and, despite
certain differences from paradigm cases with respect to the independence of its objects, also a form of
perceptual awareness.
date: 2022-11-30
date_type: published
publisher: Routledge
official_url: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429321542
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1901162
isbn_13: 9780367337315
lyricists_name: Madden, Rory
lyricists_id: RMADD49
actors_name: Madden, Rory
actors_id: RMADD49
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Abingdon, UK
book_title: The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness
edition: 1st
editors_name: Alsmith, Adrian JT
editors_name: Longo, Matthew R
citation:        Madden, R;      (2022)    Bodily awareness without the body.                    In: Alsmith, Adrian JT and Longo, Matthew R, (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness.    Routledge: Abingdon, UK.       Green open access   
 
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