TY  - CHAP
SN  - 0198852452
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852452.003.0002
A1  - Chamberlain, Colin
M1  - IX
SP  - 37
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
T2  - Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume IX
PB  - Oxford University Press
ID  - discovery10193961
N2  - Malebranche holds that sensory experience represents the world from the body?s point of view. The chapter argues that Malebranche gives a systematic analysis of this bodily perspective in terms of the claim that the five external senses and bodily awareness represent nothing but relations to the body. The external senses represent relations between external objects and the perceiver?s body. Bodily awareness represents relations between parts of the perceiver?s body and her body as a whole, and the way she is related to her body. The senses thus represent the perceiver?s body as standing in two very different sets of relations. The external senses relate the body to a world of external objects, while bodily awareness relates this same body to the perceiver herself. The perceiver?s body, for Malebranche, is the center of the system of relations that make up her sensory world, bridging the gap between self and external objects.
KW  - Malebranche
KW  -  contents of perception
KW  -  embodiment
KW  -  body-relativity
KW  -  sensory experience
CY  - Oxford, UK
EP  - 74
Y1  - 2019/12/19/
AV  - public
ED  - Rutherford, Donald
TI  - Our Body Is the Measure
ER  -