No. 4 (2013): Sense and Sensibility. Empirical and Philosophical Investigations on the Five Senses
Session 2. Representationalism, Phenomenal Character, Subjectivity

Sense and Subjectivity. A Very short - and Partial - History of the Loss and Recovery of the Bodily Self

Published 2016-11-26

Keywords

  • body,
  • soul,
  • person

How to Cite

Tomasetta, A. (2016). Sense and Subjectivity. A Very short - and Partial - History of the Loss and Recovery of the Bodily Self. Phenomenology and Mind, (4), 186–195. https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-19601

Abstract

Empirically minded and naturalistically inclined post-Cartesian philosophers have refused to accept the idea that we human persons are immaterial, senseless souls. This rejection has led to a fragmentation of the self and eventually to its theoretical disappearence. A way to resist this eliminativist trend is to see the self as an embodied entity, a promising thesis which has assumed prominence in contemporary debates. The paper is a (fairly partisan) reconstruction of this post-Cartesian scenario.