Is bodily awareness a form of perception?

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16 (3):337-354 (2017)
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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.

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Ignacio Avila
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