Our Body Is the Measure: Malebranche and the Body-Relativity of Sensory Perception

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 9:37-73 (2020)
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Malebranche holds that sensory experience represents the world from the body’s point of view. I argue that Malebranche gives a systematic analysis of this bodily perspective in terms of the claim that the five familiar external senses and bodily awareness represent nothing but relations to the body.

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