eprintid: 10138473 rev_number: 23 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/13/84/73 datestamp: 2021-12-13 15:50:02 lastmod: 2024-05-31 06:10:03 status_changed: 2021-12-13 15:50:02 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show 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 document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10138473/1/bodily%20awareness%20without%20the%20body.pdf