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Perception, body, and the sense of touch

phenomenology and philosophy of mind

Filip Mattens

pp. 97-120

Abstrakt

In recent philosophy of mind, a series of challenging ideas have appeared about the relation between the body and the sense of touch. In certain respects, these ideas have a striking affinity with Husserl's theory of the constitution of the body. Nevertheless, these two approaches lead to very different understandings of the role of the body in perception. Either the body is characterized as a perceptual "organ," or the body is said to function as a "template." Despite its focus on the sense of touch, the latter conception, I will argue, nevertheless orients its understanding of tactual perception toward visual objects. This produces a distorted conception of touch. In this paper, I will formulate an alternative account, which is more faithful to what it is like to feel.

Publication details

Published in:

(2009) Husserl Studies 25 (2).

Seiten: 97-120

DOI: 10.1007/s10743-009-9054-x

Referenz:

Mattens Filip (2009) „Perception, body, and the sense of touch: phenomenology and philosophy of mind“. Husserl Studies 25 (2), 97–120.