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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255225903321

Autore

Pöhlmann Ferdinand

Titolo

Being Somewhere : Egocentric Spatial Representation as Self-Representation / / by Ferdinand Pöhlmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden : , : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : , : Imprint : J.B. Metzler, , 2017

ISBN

3-658-18019-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 269 p.)

Disciplina

128.2

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Basic Way of Representing Oneself between mere Reflexivity and Self-Consciousness -- A Sense of one’s Action Possibilities as the Constitutive Basis of Spatial Perception -- Discussed Approaches: Perry, Scheler, Merleau-Ponty, Gibson, Evans, Hurley, Noë, and Others -- Empirical Evidence: Inverted Vision Studies, Sensory Substitution Devices and Others .

Sommario/riassunto

Ferdinand Pöhlmann argues that a sense of one’s own basic abilities to move is a constitutive condition on the ability to perceive the world spatially. This constitutive relation explains why egocentric spatial representation is to be regarded as a kind of self-representation. In arguing for these claims, conceptual as well as empirical questions are discussed and an overview of accounts that take action as a constitutive condition on spatial representation is given. The picture that emerges is linked to the phenomenological (Scheler) as well as to the analytic (Evans) tradition in the Philosophy of Mind. Contents Basic Way of Representing Oneself between mere Reflexivity and Self-Consciousness A Sense of one’s Action Possibilities as the Constitutive Basis of Spatial Perception Discussed Approaches: Perry, Scheler, Merleau-Ponty, Gibson, Evans, Hurley, Noë, and Others Empirical Evidence: Inverted Vision Studies, Sensory Substitution Devices and Others Target Groups Graduate students and researchers in philosophy of mind, cognitive science and psychology The Author Ferdinand Pöhlmann received his



doctorate from the Philosophy Department at Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen. He is currently working in the editorial office of a global publishing company in Stuttgart.