Bodily Awareness and Bodily Action

A Companion to the Philosophy of Action

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 227-235

  Yu Wong, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bodily awareness and bodily action body at the centre of physical action; Bodily awareness, condition on bodily action in a general sense; Bodily awareness, consisting of a ragtag group of ways of sensing one's body; Debate regarding Necessity short term body image as these images are the occurrent; Evidence for dissociations, between perception and action presenting further problems; Image of bodily awareness, a 'target object' for bodily will to engage with both suggestive and obscure; Normal situation of an agent, striving with her body in some way to accomplish her ends; Powerful sense in which bodily awareness being implicated in bodily actions as we know them; Support for feedback strand coming from considering how we might correct mistakes in direction, trajectory, and speed of movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885979245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444323528.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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