Mind the Body

Frédérique de Vignemont is a CNRS research director at the Jean Nicod Institute in Paris. Her research is at the intersection of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Her major current works focus on bodily awareness, self-consciousness, and social cognition. Her new project investigates the perceptual peculiarities of peripersonal space, which can be conceived of as the territory of the self. She has published widely in philosophy and psychology journals on the first-person, body schema, agency, empathy, and more recently on pain. She is the recipient of the 2015 Young Mind & Brain prize. She is also one of the executive editors of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

[an] extremely well-researched and thought-provoking book, which certainly adds substantially to the interdisciplinary study of bodily awareness and bodily experience.

• Introduction Part I: Body Snatchers 1: The phenomenology of bodily ownership 2: Whose body? 3: The immunity of the sense of ownership Part II: Body Builder 4: Bodily space 5: The body map theory 6: A multimodal account of bodily experience 7: My body among other bodies 8: Taxonomies of body representations Part III: Bodyguard 9: The Bodyguard hypothesis 10: The narcissistic body Appendix 1 - Bodily illusions Appendix 2 - Neurological and psychiatric bodily disorders Appendix 3 - Somatoparaphrenia