The Routledge handbook of bodily awareness / edited by Adrian J. T. Alsmith, Matthew R. Longo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alsmith, Adrian J. T., 1984- editor.

Longo, Matthew R. (Matthew Ryan), editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks in philosophy.

Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-consciousness (Awareness).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (571 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"Bodily awareness is one of the most interesting and enigmatic forms of experience. Our earliest and most pervasive form of conscious experience, it also arguably remains the most private. Bodily awareness has also long played a central role in the study of the mind and self-consciousness reaching back to Descartes, and is fundamental to much current philosophical and psychological research. The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness is an outstanding reference source to this fascinating subject. Comprising over thirty chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into seven clear parts: Epistemology and Metaphysics Historical Issues Body Representation Sensing the Body Dynamics Pathology Interaction. Within these sections specific topics covered include bodily ownership, personal identity, self-consciousness, body modelling in robot design, body illusions, touch, proprioception, pregnancy, phantom limb syndrome, pain, eating disorders, out of body experiences and virtual reality. The handbook features specially commissioned contributions from researchers in a wide array of disciplines, whilst being accessible to readers with any disciplinary background. It also includes an interdisciplinary introduction, written by the editors, tying together the central themes with particular attention to the interaction between conceptual, technological and empirical issues. The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness will be of great interest to those in a wide variety of philosophical subdisciplines as well as those in psychology, cognitive science, sociology and related subjects"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Bodily Awareness and the Body

0.1 'Body'

0.2 'Awareness'

0.3 The Handbook

0.3.1 Epistemology and Metaphysics

0.3.2 Historical Approaches

0.3.3 Body Representations

0.3.4 Sensing the Body

0.3.5 Dynamics

0.3.5 Pathology

0.3.6 Interaction

References

Part 1 Epistemology and Metaphysics

1 Bodily Self-Reference

1.1 Conceptual and Nonconceptual Dimensions of Bodily Self-Reference

1.2 The Limits of Self-Specifying Information

1.3 The Role of Bodily Self-Reference

1.4 Bodily Self-Reference and First-Person Contents

Related Topics

Notes

2 Bodily Awareness Without the Body

2.1 Animalism Without the Body

2.2 Bodily Awareness Without the Body

2.2.1 Self-Awareness

2.2.2 Perceptual Awareness

Bibliography

3 Ten Problems of Bodily Ownership

3.1 The Problem of the First Person

3.2 The Problem of Feeling

3.3 The Problem of Body Mereology

3.4 The Problem of the Alien Limb

3.5 The Problem of Degree

3.6 The Problem of Cognitive Penetration

3.7 The Problem of Felt Location

3.8 The Problem of Bodily Control

3.9 The Problem of Survival

3.10 Euthyphro's Dilemma

4 Resisting Phenomenalism: From Bodily Experience to Mind-Independence

4.1 Rescuing Berkeley (1): No Absolute Mind-Independence in Perception

4.2 Rescuing Berkeley (2): No Particular Mind-Independence in Perception

4.3 Resisting Berkeley (1): Particular Mind-Independence in Bodily Experience

4.4 Resisting Berkeley (2): From Will-Independence to Mind-Independence

4.5 Conclusion

Part 2 Historical Issues.

5 Aristotle On Feelings of Bodily Changes

5.1 Embodiment

5.2 Feelings of Bodily Changes

5.3 The Pleasure of Homeostasis

5.4 Conclusions

6 Not a Sailor in His Ship: Descartes On Bodily Awareness

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The Contents of Bodily Awareness

6.2.1 Inescapability

6.2.2 Suffused With Sensations and Volitions

6.2.3 A Special Object of Concern

6.3 The Ambivalent Status of Bodily Awareness

6.4 A Corrective to Disembodied Conceptions of the Self

Further Reading

7 Sense Experience and Differentiation: Husserl On Bodily Awareness

7.1 Introduction: The Me and the Not-Me

7.2 The Constitutive Duet: Hyletic and Kinesthetic Sensibility

7.3 Bodily Awareness: The Place of Entanglement of Me and Not-Me

7.4 The Negotiable Nature of the Me/not-Me Distinction

7.5 Conclusion

8 Bodily Self-Awareness in French Phenomenology

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Sense and Sensitivity: Vision Over Touch?

8.3 Self and Other

8.4 Self as Other: The Objectified Body

8.5 Conclusion

9 Clinical Disorders of Body Representations: A Historical Perspective

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Arnold Pick and Autotopagnosia

9.3 Head and Holmes: Multiple Dissociable Body Representations

9.4 Body Awareness Disorders

9.4.1 Anosognosia for Hemiparesis

9.4.2 Hemisomatagnosia

9.4.3 Somatoparaphrenia

9.4.4 Commonalities in Anosognosia, Hemiasomatognosia, and Somatoparaphrenia

9.4.5 Phantom Limb After Amputation

9.4.6 Phantom Limb After Stroke

9.5 Conclusion

Part 3 Body Representation

10 Bodily Self-Awareness and Body-Schematic Processes

10.1 Two Historical Sources of the Ideas of Body Image and Body Schema.

10.2 Body Schema and Body Awareness in Deafferentation

10.3 A Minimal But Super-Fast Body Schema

10.4 Conclusion

11 Distinguishing Body Representations

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Development of Taxonomic Body Representation Accounts

11.3 Issues With Taxonomic Body Representation Accounts

11.4 Developing Processing Models: Body Schema and Touch

12 Predictive Processing and Body Representation

12.1 Predictive Processing and Body Representation

12.2 Body Representation and Domain Specificity

12.3 Body Representations and Inferential Complexity

12.3.1 Representation of Body Size

12.3.2 Representation of Body Ownership

12.4 Conclusion

13 Peripersonal Space (PPS)

13.1 What PPS Is

13.1.1 Neural Mechanisms of PPS Representation

13.1.1.1 PPS Neurons

13.1.1.2 PPS in Humans

13.2 Dynamics and Plasticity in PPS Representation

13.2.1 PPS Plastically Shapes as a Function of Experience

13.2.2 PPS Dynamically Adjusts as a Function of the Characteristics of Environmental Stimuli and Their Value

13.2.3 PPS and (Potential) Actions

13.3 PPS Representation Is Affected By Social Interactions

13.4 PPS Defines the Space of the Self

14 Body Models in Humans and Robots

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Postural Schema and Superficial Schema - Body Models Or Body State Representations?

14.3 Somatosensory Localization - Experimental Evidence

14.4 Predictions and Implications for a Process Model

14.5 Conceptual Model of Somatosensory Processing Versus Robot Architecture

14.6 Conceptual Model of Somatosensory Processing Revisited

14.7 Conclusion, Discussion, and Future Work

References.

Part 4 Sensing the Body

15 Bodily Illusions

15.1 Introduction

15.2 What Is a Bodily Illusion?

15.3 How to Register Bodily Illusions?

15.4 How Should Bodily Illusions Be Classified?

15.5 Limb-Movement Illusions

15.6 The Rubber Hand Illusion and Its Variations

15.7 Mirror Illusion, Real-Time Video Illusions, and Virtual Hand Illusion

15.8 The Pinocchio Illusion and Body-Size Illusions

15.9 Full-Body Illusions

15.10 Supernumerary Limb Illusions

15.11 Illusions of Material Properties, Numbness, and Right-Left Hand Reversal

15.12 Imaging Bodily Illusions in the Human Brain

15.13 Principles

15.14 Models

15.15 Individual Differences

15.16 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Note

16 Sensing the Body Through Sound

16.1 Introduction

16.2 How Sounds Get Referred to Our Bodies

16.3 The Sounding Body: How Sounds Provide a Relational and Event-Based Body Representation

16.4 The Sounding Body: Sounds Influence How We Represent and Use Our Bodies

16.4.1 Body Metrics and Materiality

16.4.2 The Agentive Body

16.4.3 Our Bodies in Relation to Others

16.5 Applications and Future Directions

16.5.1 Body Perception Disturbances (BPDs)

16.5.2 Sports and Physical Rehabilitation

16.5.3 Future Prospects and Opportunities

16.6 Conclusions

17 The Puzzle of Proprioception

17.1 A Sense of Bodily Posture and Movement

17.2 Solutions to the Puzzle

17.3 Assessing De Vignemont's Case

17.4 Dissolving the Puzzle?

17.5 The Puzzle of Proprioception and Motor Action

17.6 Conclusion

18 Interoception and the Mentalization of Bodily States

18.1 Original Definition and Modern Variations.

18.2 Interoception in Physical and Mental Health

18.3 The Role of Interoception for Cognition

18.3.1 Interoception in Emotion

18.3.2 Interoception in Intuitive Decision-Making

18.3.3 Interoception, Learning and Memory

18.4 From Homeostasis to Allostasis: Interoceptive Predictions

18.5 From Sensing to Mentalization: Awareness of the Self and Awareness of Others

18.6 Conclusions and Future Directions

Part 5 Dynamics

19 Developmental Origins of Bodily Awareness

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Theoretical Treatments of the Ontogeny of Body Representations

19.3 The Origins of Somatosensory Maps of the Body in the Brain

19.4 The Origins of Somatosensory Maps of the Body in Behaviour: Learning to Locate Touches

19.5 The Origins of Proprioception and the Postural Schema

19.6 The Development of Multisensory Body Representations

19.7 Body Representations and Emerging Self-Awareness

19.8 Summary and Conclusions

20 Phantom Limbs

20.1 Introduction

20.2 The Varieties of Phantom Limb Experience

20.3 Phantom Limbs and Embodiment

20.4 Explanations of Phantom Limb Phenomena

20.5 Conclusions

21 Bodily Skill

21.1 Introduction

21.2 The Nature of Skill

21.3 The Implementation of Skill, and a Difficulty

21.4 A Convergence On Hierarchical Architecture

21.5 Representations, Systems, and Interfaces

21.6 Intelligence All Over

21.7 A Role for Bodily Awareness?

21.8 Conclusion

22 Tool Use

22.1 Introduction

22.2 Effects of Tool Use On Body Representation

22.2.1 Effects of Tool Use On Motor Behavior

22.2.2 Effects of Tool Use On Somatosensory Perception

22.2.3 Neural Correlates of Tool-Induced Plasticity.

22.3 Drivers and Constraints of Tool-Induced Plasticity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781000755985

1000755983

9780429321542

0429321546

OCLC:

1342254171