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Chapter 12 - Bodily immunity to error

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2012

Simon Prosser
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
François Recanati
Affiliation:
Institut Jean-Nicod
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The tactile sensations experienced on the hand justify the patients in making an existential generalization such that there is a hand that is in contact with a paintbrush. However, the patients are wrong in figuring out which object instantiates the bodily property because they do not judge that it is their own hand that is in contact with a paintbrush. If this is the right analysis of somatoparaphrenia, then it constitutes counter-evidence to the hypothesis of bodily immunity to error through which-misidentification. The author shows that somatoparaphrenia is irrelevant for the discussion of bodily immunity to error through misidentification (IEM). The extent of bodily IEM is determined by the extent of multimodality: the more multimodality, the less bodily immunity. Most accounts of bodily IEM focus on proprioception, neglecting the multimodality of most bodily self-ascriptions. Proprioceptive signals are integrated only with visual signals coming from one's body under normal circumstances.
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Print publication year: 2012

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