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An outstanding reference source to this fascinating subject. Comprising 33 chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook 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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
