The philosophy of body

Author(s)

• Proudfoot, Michael A.

Bibliographic Information

The philosophy of body

edited by Michael Proudfoot

Blackwell Publishing, 2003

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This timely collection brings together new discussions of the body from seven leading contributors with a wide variety of philosophical outlooks. The papers deal with the role of the body in the concept of the self, in perceptions, intention and action, in Artificial Intelligence, in thinking about sex and gender, and in psychoanalytical thinking. A collection of specially written articles discussing the wide variety of treatments of the body. Timely publication bringing together new discussions of the body from seven leading contributors. Investigates the treatment of the body in the pioneering works of the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the American Philosopher Samual Todes.

Table of Contents

1. Representing Bodies: Quassim Cassam (University of Oxford). 2. Corporeal Objects and the Independence of Perception and Action: Maximilian de Gaynesford, (The College of William and Mary, Virginia). 3. Gender/Body/Machine: Alison Adam (University of Salford). 4. Merleau-Ponty on the Body: Sean D. Kelly (Princeton University). 5. Samual Todes's Account of Non-conceptual Perceptual Knowledge and its Relation to Thought: Hubert L. Dreyfus (University of California, Berkeley). 6. Lived Body vs Gender: Reflections on Social Structure and Subjectivity: Iris Marion Young (University of Chicago). 7. Psychoanalysis and the Body-Mind Problem: Michael Brearley.

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Details

• NCID: BA61687025
• ISBN:
  • 1405108959
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 130 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 128.6
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Body, Human (Philosophy)