The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness by Alsmith, Adrian J.T.; Longo, Matthew R.;

Short description:

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.

Long description:

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 Bodily Awareness is an outstanding reference source to this fascinating subject. Comprising over thirty chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into seven parts:

• Epistemology and Metaphysics


• Historical Issues


• Body Representation


• Sensing the Body


• Dynamics


• Pathology


• Interaction

Within these sections specific topics covered include bodily ownership, personal identity, self-consciousness, body modelling in robot design, body illusions, touch, proprioception, phantom limb syndrome, pain, eating disorders, out-of-body experiences and virtual reality. The handbook features specially commissioned contributions from researchers in a wide array of disciplines, whilst being accessible to readers with any disciplinary background. It also includes an interdisciplinary introduction, written by the editors, tying together the central themes with particular attention to the interaction between conceptual, technological and empirical issues.

The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness 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.

Table 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