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Being Somewhere

Egocentric Spatial Representation as Self-Representation
By:Ferdinand Pöhlmann
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9783658180188
eText ISBN:9783658180195
Edition:0
Copyright:2017
Format:Page Fidelity

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Ferdinand Pöhlmann argues that a sense of one’s own basic abilities to move is a constitutive condition on the ability to perceive the world spatially. This constitutive relation explains why egocentric spatial representation is to be regarded as a kind of self-representation. In arguing for these claims, conceptual as well as empirical questions are discussed and an overview of accounts that take action as a constitutive condition on spatial representation is given. The picture that emerges is linked to the phenomenological (Scheler) as well as to the analytic (Evans) tradition in the Philosophy of Mind.​