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Moments of recognition

deontic power and bodily felt demands

Henning Nörenberg(Institut für Philosophie, University College Cork)

pp. 191-206

Abstrakt

While the current discussion on embodied cognition provides valuable accounts of an agent's bodily sensitivity to instrumental possibilities ("I can"), in this paper I investigate felt demands as the bodily-affective dimension of the agent's recognition of deontic powers such as obligations ("I ought"). I argue that there is a close kinship between felt demands and affordances in the stricter sense. I will suggest that what is unique about felt demands on an experiential level is that they involve an evaluative perspective arising from acute or anticipated shame-like feelings. The conclusion is that the recognition of deontic power is also a matter of bodily sensitivity.

Publication details

Published in:

(2020) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 19 (1).

Seiten: 191-206

DOI: 10.1007/s11097-019-09622-9

Referenz:

Nörenberg Henning (2020) „Moments of recognition: deontic power and bodily felt demands“. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 19 (1), 191–206.