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The bodily self :selected essays on self-consciousness

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"These essays explore how the rich and sophisticated forms of self-consciousness with which we are most familiar -- as philosophers, psychologists, and as ordinary, reflective individuals -- depend on a complex underpinning that has been largely invisible to students of the self and self-consciousness. Jos?e Luis Berm?udez, extending the insights of his groundbreaking 1998 book, The Paradox of Self-Consciousness, argues that full-fledged, linguistic self-consciousness is built on a rich foundation of primitive, nonconceptual self-consciousness, and that these more primitive forms of self-consciousness persist in ways that frame self-conscious thought. They extend throughout the animal kingdom, and some are present in newborn human infants. Berm?udez makes the case that these primitive forms of self-awareness can indeed be described as forms of self-consciousness, arguing that they share certain structural and epistemological features with full-fledged, linguistic self-consciousness. He offers accounts of certain important classes of states of nonconceptual content, including the self-specifying dimension of visual perception and the content of bodily awareness, considering how they represent the self. And he explores the general role of nonconceptual self-consciousness in our cognitive and affective lives, examining in several essays the relation between nonconceptual awareness of our bodies and what has been called our "sense of ownership" for our own bodies."--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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: The MIT Press., 2018

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1 online resource (viii, 303 pages) :illustrations

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English

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9780262344661

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computer

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Self (Philosophy)
Self-consciousness (Awareness)
Mind and body.

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Jos?e Luis Berm?udez.

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https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/3622/The-Bodily-SelfSelected-Essays

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