Being Somewhere: Egocentric Spatial Representation as Self-Representation

Pöhlmann, Ferdinand

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.​

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Published by: J.B. Metzler

Publication Date: 2017-05-22

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783658180188

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-18019-5

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 269