Books by Frédérique de Vignemont
“This is a book of philosophy by a philosopher who has made the body her focus, and works also with empirical data from psychology and neuroscience to study the self as an embodied entity. There is a lot of work on this now, both conceptual and empirical. But as she notes, embodied theorists often don’t pay much attention to the body itself. A lot of the literature on embodied cognition is rather disembodied, and very abstract – not really descriptive of the embodied experience, which is hard to account for, and indeed hard to talk about. The question she investigates here is: what is actually happening in the body that would help us account for our sense of embodied self? She takes a hard look at substantial experimental data to fill in the picture, never losing sight of the philosophical questions regarding the interpretation of this data.” Read more...
Noga Arikha, Philosopher
Interviews where books by Frédérique de Vignemont were recommended
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The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
by Antonio Damasio -
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Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
by Peter Godfrey-Smith -
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Mind the Body: An Exploration of Bodily Self-Awareness
by Frédérique de Vignemont -
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The Interoceptive Mind: From Homeostasis to Awareness
edited by Manos Tsakiris and Helena De Preester -
5
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays
by Siri Hustvedt
The best books on Philosophy, Science and the Body, recommended by Noga Arikha
The best books on Philosophy, Science and the Body, recommended by Noga Arikha
Philosophy is a subject of abstract concepts and arguments, traditionally focusing on ideas about the soul or the mind and less so on the body. However, as modern science has made ever more apparent, very little makes sense without it. Philosopher and historian of ideas Noga Arikha recommends books on philosophy, science and the body.