1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness

Edited By Adrian J.T. Alsmith, Matthew R. Longo Copyright 2023
570 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

570 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

570 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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, and is fundamental to much current philosophical and psychological research. The Routledge Handbook of... Read more

Introduction: Bodily Awareness and the Body Adrian Alsmith and Matthew Longo

Part 1: Epistemology and Metaphysics

1. Bodily Self-Reference Jose Luis Bermúdez

2. Bodily Awareness Without the Body Rory Madden

3. Ten Problems of Body Ownership Frédérique de Vignemont

4. Resisting Phenomenalism: From Effort to Mind-Independence Olivier Massin

Part 2: Historical Issues

5. Aristotle on Feelings of Bodily Changes Pia Campeggiani

6. Not a Sailor in His Ship: Descartes on Bodily Awareness Colin Chamberlain

7. Sense Experience and Differentiation – Husserl on Bodily Awareness Joona Taipale

8. Bodily Awareness in French Phenomenology Maren Wehrle and Maxime Doyon

9. Clinical Disorders of Body Representations: An Historical Perspective Branch Coslett

Part 3: Body Representation

10. Bodily Self-Awareness and Body Schematic Processes Shaun Gallagher

11. Distinguishing Body Representations Jared Medina

12. Predictive Processing and Body Representation Jakob Hohwy and Stephen Gadsby

13. Peripersonal Space (PPS) Andrea Serino

14. Body Models in Humans and Robots Matej Hoffmann and Matthew Longo

Part 4: Sensing the Body

15. Bodily Illusions H. Henrik Ehrsson

16. Sensing the Body Through Sound Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Merle T. Fairhurst and Ophelia Deroy

17. The Puzzle of Proprioception Alisa Mandrigin

18. Interoception and the Mentalization of Bodily States André Schulz and Manos Tsakiris

Part 5: Dynamics

19. Developmental Origins of Bodily Awareness Andy Bremner

20. Phantom Limbs Michael L. Anderson, Jonathan G. Bowen, and Vicente Raja

21. Bodily Skill Josh Shepherd

22. Tool Use Luke E. Miller and Alessandro Farnè

23. Distal Touch and the Sensational Model Adrian Alsmith

Part 6: Pathology

24. Pain, the Body, and Awareness Jennifer Corns

25. Depersonalisation Alexandre Billon

26. Body Representation in Anorexia Nervosa Anouk Keizer and Manja Engel

27. Disorders Of Body Ownership Paul Jenkinson, Valentina Moro, and Aikaterini (Katerina) Fotopoulou

28. Out-Of-Body Experiences Bigna Lenggenhager and Jasmine T. Ho

Part 7: Interaction

29. Body Scaling of Visually Perceived Metric Space Dennis R. Proffitt, Sally A. Linkenauger, Lisa P. Y. Lin, and Rachael L. Taylor

30. A Plastic Virtual Self: How Virtual Reality Can Be Transforming Mel Slater and Maria V. Sanchez-Vives

31. Body-Based User Interfaces Paul Strohmeier, Henning Pohl, Jess Mcintosh, Aske Mottelson, Jarrod Knibbe, Yvonne Jansen, Joanna Bergström, and Kasper Hornbæk

32. Drug-Induced Alterations of Bodily Awareness Raphaël Millière

33. Social Bodily Self: Conceptual and Psychopathological Considerations Francesca Ferroni and Vittorio Gallese.

Index

Biography

Adrian J.T. Alsmith is Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London, UK. He has published on bodily awareness, body representation, self-consciousness, and multisensory spatial perception. He is co-editor of The Subject’s Matter (MIT Press, 2017).

Matthew R. Longo is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He studied at Berkeley and Chicago before conducting postdoctoral research at University College London. His research investigates the psychological and neural bases of bodily experience.