Being Somewhere (eBook)

Egocentric Spatial Representation as Self-Representation

Ferdinand Pöhlmann (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XII, 269 Seiten
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden (Verlag)
978-3-658-18019-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.​

Ferdinand Pöhlmann received his doctorate from the Philosophy Department at Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen. He is currently working in the editorial office of a global publishing company in Stuttgart.

Inhalt

Basic Way of Representing Oneself between mere Reflexivity and Self-Consciousness.- A Sense of one’s Action Possibilities as the Constitutive Basis of Spatial Perception.- Discussed Approaches: Perry, Scheler, Merleau-Ponty, Gibson, Evans, Hurley, Noë, and Others.- Empirical Evidence: Inverted Vision Studies, Sensory Substitution Devices and Others​.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 269 p.
• Verlagsort: Wiesbaden
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Schlagworte: Conscious experience • Disposition for Action • Inverted Vision • Kinaesthesis • Phenomenology • Sensory Substitution Devices • Two Visual Systems Hypothesis
• ISBN-10: 3-658-18019-6 / 3658180196
• ISBN-13: 978-3-658-18019-5 / 9783658180195