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creators_name: Chamberlain, Colin
title: "The body I call 'mine' ": A sense of bodily ownership in Descartes
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C01
divisions: F16
keywords: Descartes, sense of bodily ownership, embodiment, sensory perception, contents of
perception
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abstract: 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.
date: 2019-03
date_type: published
publisher: WILEY
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12397
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2001930
doi: 10.1111/ejop.12397
lyricists_name: Chamberlain, Colin
lyricists_id: CCHAM01
actors_name: Chamberlain, Colin
actors_id: CCHAM01
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: European Journal of Philosophy
volume: 27
number: 1
pagerange: 3-24
pages: 22
issn: 0966-8373
citation:        Chamberlain, Colin;      (2019)    "The body I call 'mine' ": A sense of bodily ownership in Descartes.                   European Journal of Philosophy , 27  (1)   pp. 3-24.    10.1111/ejop.12397 <https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12397>.       Green open access   
 
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