Is bodily awareness a form of perception?

Ignacio Ávila

pp. 337-354

in: Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences 16 (3), 2017.

Abstract

In this paper I address the question of whether bodily awareness is a form of perceptual awareness or not. I discuss José Luis Bermúdez's and Shaun Gallagher's proposals about this issue and find them unsatisfactory. Then I suggest an alternative view and offer some reasons for it.