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The Embodied Subjective Perspective

  • ZHAO Meng
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  • Chinese Marxism College, China Youth University for Political Sciences, Beijing 100089, China

Published date: 04 Jul 2014

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2014 Higher Education Press and Brill

Abstract

Perspective is a distinctive feature of external perception. There is a question of how to account for perceptual constancy in spite of changing perspectives. Alva Noë proposes the notion of “perspectival property” [P-property] and appeals to the perspectival aspect of perceptual content. His proposal conflicts with perceptual experiences and hence incurs many criticisms. Drawing on Husserl’s phenomenology and Gibsonian psychology, I propose the notion of “perspectival awareness” [P-awareness]. I will argue that P-awareness is embodied pre-thematic self-awareness instead of the experience of a special kind of objective property. With the notion of P-awareness in mind, I then elaborate on the embodied subjective feature of perspective.

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ZHAO Meng . The Embodied Subjective Perspective[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2014 , 9(2) : 280 -300 . DOI: 10.3868/s030-003-014-0023-4

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