Being Somewhere: Egocentric Spatial Representation as Self-Representation

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.​

• | Author: Ferdinand Pöhlmann
• | Publisher: J.B. Metzler
• | Publication Date: May 22, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 269 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 3658180188
• | ISBN-13: 9783658180188