The next session from the Network for Phenomenological Research takes place on 29 January, with Carlota Serrahima on ‘Sensory Fields’.
Monthly Phenomenology
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Carlota Serrahima (University of Antwerp)
Sensory Fields: The Visual and the Bodily
Friday, 29 January 2021
10:15am EST, 3:15pm GMT, 4:15pm CET
Abstract: In recent literature on bodily awareness, philosophers talk about how somatosensation involves a “sense of bodily ownership”: when I feel the body somatosensorily, I typically self-attribute it. In this paper I will propose an analysis of what it is like to experience the body as one’s own. I will do so by means of a comparison between the phenomenologies of somatosensation and visual perception. According to some views on visual perception, the content and phenomenology of visual experiences is constrained by the fact that they rely on a visual field. The visual field accounts for the partially subjective character of some properties of visual experiences. I will argue that an analogous analysis for somatosensation is cogent: in somatosensation, we experience the body as a sensory field. This fact explains the peculiarly subjective character of the body when we perceive it “from the inside”.
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