Frédérique de Vignemont

Institut Jean Nicod

Body, Space, and the Self (BoSS) 

ENS-PSL University-EHESS-CNRS

Paris, France 

SOME RECENT WORK (all papers are available on https://hal.science) 

On affect and danger perception

For a summary of my current project on Youtube:  Cardiff Annual Lecture 2025, Royal Institute of Philosophy, https://www.youtube.com/live/9lqDERCwufA

• • Unpleasant seeing. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 2026

  • A future orientation for visual experiences. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 2025

  • Value in Action. Analysis. 2024

  • Fear beyond danger. Mind and Language. 2024

  • La douleur : entre évaluation et action. Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 2024

  • Expecting pain.  Synthese. 2023

  • Fifty shades of affective colouring of perception. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2023

On peripersonal space

• • Time in Peripersonal Space. Physics of life reviews. 2025

  •  With A. Pillot.  Feeling presence in the dark. Journal of consciousness studies. 2024

  • With A. Farné. Peripersonal space: why so last second? Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B. 2024

  • Peripersonal perception in action. Synthese, 2021

  • A minimal sense of here-ness. Journal of Philosophy. 2021

  • With A. Serino, H.Y. Wong, & A. Farnè. Peripersonal space: a special way of representing space. In The world at our fingertips. 2021

On bodily awareness

• • With C. Apelian, & D. Terhune, D.. Hypnotic suggestion versus sensory modulation of bodily awareness. Plos One, 2023

  • Ten problems of body ownership. In Routledge Handbook of the philosophy of the body, edited by A. Alsmith and M. Longo. Routledge, 2022.

  • With V. Pitron, & A. Alsmith. What is the body schema? In Yochai Ataria, Shogo Tanaka and Shaun Gallagher (eds), Body schema and body image. Oxford University Press. 2021

BOOKS

• With B. Young and E. di Bona (eds). Routledge Handbook in contemporary philosophy of perception. Routledge. Under contract.

• Affective Bodily Awareness. Cambridge Elements in philosophy of mind. Cambridge University Press. 2023. OPEN ACCESS

• Désenchanter le corps. Odile Jacob. 2023.

• The world at our fingertips: a multidisciplinary investigation of Peripersonal space, edited by F. de Vignemont, A. Serino, H.Y. Wong, and A. Farnè, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021.

• Mind the Body: An exploration of bodily self-awareness, by F. de Vignemont, Oxford University Press, 2018. 

• The Subject's Matter: Self-consciousness and the body, edited by F. de Vignemont and A. Alsmith. MIT Press, 2017.