What reason could there be to believe in pre-reflective bodily self-consciousness?

Alsmith, Adrian

doi:10.1075/aicr.86.01als

In:Consciousness in Interaction: The role of the natural and social context in shaping consciousness
Edited by Fabio Paglieri
[Advances in Consciousness Research 86] 2012
► pp. 3–18

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What reason could there be to believe in pre-reflective bodily self-consciousness?

Adrian Alsmith | Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen

Published online: 7 August 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.86.01als

This paper aims to examine the reasons for endorsing the idea of pre-reflective bodily self-consciousness. The guiding question will be: why should one think that any description of consciousness that posits PBS is correct? The aim of this discussion is to show how hard this question is to answer and the kinds of considerations that one should bring to bear in attempting to answer it. Keywords: explanation; phenomenology; bodily self-consciousness; attention; introspection

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