Essays on the role of the body in self-consciousness, showing that full-fledged, linguistic self-consciousness is built on a rich foundation of primitive, nonconceptual self-consciousness.
Preface and Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Understanding the Bodily Self
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1 Nonconceptual Self-Consciousness and Cognitive Science
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2 Ecological Perception and the Notion of a Nonconceptual Point of View
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3 The Sources of Self-Consciousness
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4 The Elusiveness Thesis, Immunity to Error through Misidentification, and Privileged Access
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5 The Phenomenology of Bodily Awareness
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6 Bodily Awareness and Self-Consciousness
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7 Bodily Ownership, Bodily Awareness, and Knowledge without Observation
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8 Ownership and the Space of the Body
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9 Bodily Ownership, Psychological Ownership, and Psychopathology
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10 The Bodily Self, Commonsense Psychology, and the Springs of Action