Projektnummer

0052651

Zusammenfassung

The body, as the subject or the object of our experience, mediates all our interactions between our mind and the world. Not surprisingly, both the human experience of the body itself and the concepts used to depict it are steeped in cultural and intellectual history. However, the experience of the body is rarely invoked in a unanimous manner in life sciences, mind sciences and the humanities. Could the experience of one's body be conceptualized as a straight physiological process, a psychological structure, or an essentially private, scientifically inaccessible, subjective event? The p...