Chamberlain, Colin;
(2022)
Not a Sailor in His Ship: Descartes on Bodily Awareness.
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The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness.
Routledge: Abingdon, UK.
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Abstract
Despite his reputation for neglecting the body, Descartes develops a systematic account of bodily awareness. He holds that in bodily awareness each of us feels intimately connected to our body. We experience this body as inescapable, as infused with bodily sensations and volitions, and as a special object of concern. This multifaceted experience plays an ambivalent role in Descartes’s philosophy. Bodily awareness is epistemically dangerous. It tempts us to falsely judge that we cannot exist apart from our bodies. But bodily awareness isn’t all bad for Descartes. It helps us stay alive. Descartes also appeals to bodily awareness as a corrective to overly disembodied conceptions of the self.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Not a Sailor in His Ship: Descartes on Bodily Awareness |
| ISBN: | 0367337312 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780367337315 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-o... |
| 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. |
| 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/10193976 |
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