Most accounts of bodily self-awareness focus on its sensory and agentive dimensions, tracking the origins of our special relationship with our own body in the way we gain information about it and in the way we act with it. However, they often neglect a fundamental dimension of our subjective bodily life, namely, its affective dimension. This Element will discuss bodily self-awareness through the filter of its affective significance. It is organized around four core themes: (i) the relationship between bodily awareness and action in instrumental and protective contexts, (ii) the motivational role of pain and interoception, (iii) the sense of bodily ownership and its relation to the value of the body for survival, and (iv) bodily anchoring in peripersonal and egocentric awareness. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author: Frédérique de Vignemont
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/12/2023
Series: Elements in Philosophy of Mind
Pages: 75
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d
ISBN: 9781009209687