Chamberlain, Colin;
(2019)
Our Body Is the Measure.
In: Rutherford, Donald, (ed.)
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume IX.
(pp. 37-74).
Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Our Body Is the Measure |
| ISBN: | 0198852452 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198852452.003.0002 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852452.003.00... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Malebranche, contents of perception, embodiment, body-relativity, sensory experience |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10193961 |
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