Everyday Thinking About Bodily Sensations

Abstract

In the opening section of this paper we spell out an account of our naive view of bodily sensations that is of historical and philosophical significance. This account of our shared view of bodily sensations captures common ground between Descartes, who endorses an error theory regarding our everyday thinking about bodily sensations, and Berkeley, who is more sympathetic with common sense. In the second part of the paper we develop an alternative to this account and discuss what is at stake in deciding between these two ways of understanding our everyday view. In the third and final part of the paper we offer an argument in favour of our alternative.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Publication Title

Australasian Journal Of Philosophy

Department

Philosophy

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048400903232680

Keywords

Philosophy

Language

English

Format

text

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