Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of Contents1. 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.
