Hauptseminar, Summer Semester 2017
The Body and the Self
Instructor:
Prof Hong Yu Wong (Philosophy/CIN)
Cross-listed in:
Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Max Planck Graduate Training Centre
Course website:
https://sites.google.com/site/whywong/teaching/
Time and Location:
July 17-19, 2017, Hölderlinzimmer, Alte Burse (except for Monday and Wednesday talks; see below for shedule)
Theme: Embodiment, Action and the Self
What role does the body play in perception, action, and cognition? How does the body relate to the self?
Background:
Wong "Embodied Agency", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research early view.
Watch Wong's keynote lecture on "Embodiment" at the conference on Persons, Selves, and Organisms at Bilkent University on Youtube.
Reading:
We will read selections from Hong Yu Wong’s Embodied Agency (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Prerequisites:
Students are expected to have taken prior classes in either philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophy of language, epistemology or decision theory. (This requirement is waived for students of the GTC Neural and Behavioral School.)
*Students interested in attending the seminar who have not received an informational email from the instructor should email Hong Yu Wong at whywong@gmail.com immediately*
Schedule:
July 17 (Monday)
18.00-19.30
Denis Buehler (Oxford) "Varieties of Human Agency"
Location: Seminar Room 2.310, Hertie Institute for Brain Research, Otfried-Müller-Str. 27
July 18 (Tuesday) - Hölderlinzimmer, Alte Burse
10.00-12.00
Setting Up the Issues: Embodied Agency
- Eilan, N. (2010) "Explanatory Role of Consciousness", in T. O’Connor and C. Sandis (eds.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (Blackwell).
- O’Shaughnessy, B. (1995) “Proprioception and the Body Image”, in J. Bermúdez, A. Marcel, and N. Eilan (eds.) (1995) The Body and The Self (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
- Wong “Bodily Awareness and Bodily Agency”, in T. O’Connor and C. Sandis (eds.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (Blackwell, 2010).
- Wong “On the Significance of Bodily Awareness for Action", Philosophical Quarterly
14.30-16.30
Proprioception in Action
- Wong "Embodied Agency", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
- Wong “The Body Schema as a Condition of Possibility for Action”, in Y. Coello and M. Fischer (eds.) From Action to Concepts: Behavioral and Neural Foundations of Embodied Cognition, 2 vols., Psychology Press, forthcoming 2015.
16.45-18.45
Ownership; Acting with My Body
- Martin, M. G. F. “Bodily Awareness: A Sense of Ownership” in Bermudez et al. (1995)
- de Vignemont, F. (2007) "Habeas Corpus: the Sense of Ownership of One's Body", Mind and Language, 22, 4.
de Vignemont, F. (2011) "Embodiment, ownership and disownership", Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 82-93.
July 19 (Wednesday) - Hölderlinzimmer, Alte Burse
10.00-12.00
Balance and the Self
- Wong “In and Out of Balance”, in F. de Vignemont and A. Alsmith (eds.) The Subject’s Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body, MIT Press, forthcoming 2017.
13.00-15.00
Embodiment; Personal and Sub-personal
- Shoemaker, S. "Embodiment and Behaviour"
(Optional: 15.15-17.00
Kim Frost (Syracuse) "Hegel and Pippin on Knowledge of Intention")
18.15-19.45
Kim Frost (Syracuse) "Practical Knowledge and Mistakes in Performance"
Location: Raum X, Alte Burse