TY  - JOUR
PB  - WILEY
N2  - How does Descartes characterize the peculiar way in which each of us is aware of our bodies? I argue that Descartes recognizes a sense of bodily ownership, such that the body sensorily appears to be one's own in bodily awareness. This sensory appearance of ownership is ubiquitous, for Descartes, in that bodily awareness always confers a sense of ownership. This appearance is confused, in so far as bodily awareness simultaneously represents the subject as identical to, partially composed by, and united to her body, without distinguishing these relations. Finally, the appearance of ownership is grounded in multiple other ways in which the body sensorily appears: Namely, in the fact that the body appears to be inescapable, modified by bodily sensations, and an object of special concern.
ID  - discovery10193972
KW  - Descartes
KW  -  sense of bodily ownership
KW  -  embodiment
KW  -  sensory perception
KW  -  contents of
perception
AV  - public
Y1  - 2019/03//
EP  - 24
TI  - "The body I call 'mine' ": A sense of bodily ownership in Descartes
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12397
SN  - 0966-8373
A1  - Chamberlain, Colin
JF  - European Journal of Philosophy
VL  - 27
SP  - 3
IS  - 1
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
ER  -