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Being Somewhere: Egocentric Spatial Representation as Self-Representation

By Ferdinand Pöhlmann (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
J.B. Metzler
Year
2017
ISBN
978-3-658-18018-8, 978-3-658-18019-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-658-18019-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3611822 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XII, 269\278
Time added
2017-06-25 01:09:18
Philosophy of Mind

Description

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.​

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