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Questions to Consider: 1. On p.299 Merleau-Ponty introduces the view of the ‘psychologist’, according to which the constant (true) shape and size of an object is that which is most frequently presents. Merleau- Ponty criticises the view by claiming that it presupposes that which it is supposed to explain. What exactly do you think he has in mind here? What is the account supposed to explain and does the ‘psychologist’ really presuppose it? 2. Merleau-Ponty introduces the ‘Kantian’ view of shape and size constancy on p.300. What is this view supposed to be? What problems does Merleau-Ponty think that it faces? 3. On p.302 Merleau-Ponty introduces his own account of shape and size constancy, according to which the constant is that which is associated with a norm. What is the view? How does it differ from the two accounts that Merleau-Ponty rejects? 4. After a lengthy discussion of the relationship between ‘the thing lighted’, ‘the lighting’ and ‘the organisation of the field’, Merleau-Ponty tells us the ‘true significance of the perceptual constancies’ (p.313). What do you think this ‘true significance’ is? Do you think that Merleau- Ponty has made a convincing case for the claim? 22 Lecture 8 (week 9): Embodiment I – the living body (Stein) Required Reading: Stein, E. 1917. On the Problem of Empathy. In Moran, D. & Mooney, T. The Phenomenology Reader. London: Routledge, 2002. [S] Recommended Reading: De Vignemont, F. 2007. Habeas Corpus: The sense of ownership of one’s own body. Mind and Language 22 [O] Further Reading: *Brewer, B. 1995. Bodily-Awareness and the Self. In J. L. Bermúdez, A. Marcel & N. Eilan, eds. The Body and the Self. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. *Carman, T. 1999. The Body in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. Philosophical Topics 27 (1999) Also available at http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/188_s05/pdf/Carman_Body.pdf Cassam, Q. Forthcoming. The Embodied Self. In S. Gallagher, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the Self. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Also available at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/faculty/cassam/ Gallagher, S. 1986. Lived Body and Environment. Research in Phenomenology 16 [O] Gallagher, S. 2003. Bodily-Awareness and Object Perception. Theoria et Historia Scientiarum: International Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies 7 (2003) Also available at http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~gallaghr/ MacIntyre, A. 2006. Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, Ch.9 Martin, M. G. F. 1995. Bodily Awareness: A Sense of Ownership. In J. L. Bermúdez, A. Marcel & N. Eilan, eds. The Body and the Self. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. *Merleau-Ponty, M. 1945. Phenomenology of Perception, translated by C. Smith. London: Routledge, 1962, Part 1 [S] Also available at www.archive.org 23 56
The Topic Decartes remarked that he was not lodged in his body as is a pilot in a ship. The way in which we are aware of our bodies is special. Embodiment is a pervasive feature of our experience, yet it is so familiar that it can easily be overlooked. This topic concerns the awareness that each of us has of our bodies ‘from the inside’. Can the awareness that one has of one’s own body be understood on the model of the awareness that one has of other objects? Or is the body given, not as an object, but as the subject of experience? And how does the experience of the body ‘from the inside’ relate to the experience of it from without? The Reading Although the title concerns empathy, the real topic of this reading is the experience we have of our own bodies from the inside – what she, like Husserl, calls the ‘living body’ (Leib). Her central aim to to account for the fact that we experience ourselves as embodied and her explanation focuses on the body’s spatial relation to us, its being the location of sensation, and its being the vehicle of expression. She describes the sense of ownership that each of us has concerning our bodies and the way in which our bodies take up space. This, she claims, is unlike the spatial location of other objects. She also offers an account of the way in which we identify the felt body with the seen body via phenomenal ‘fusion’. Stein goes on to argue that our experience of bodily expression and of the body’s relation to the will, partly grounds our sense of being a ‘psycho-physical individual’. Questions to Consider: 1. Does Stein offer an explanation of one’s ‘affiliation’ with one’s body – the sense of ownership? What is it? 2. Stein claims that the spatiality of the body differs from that of other objects. Is this phenomenologically accurate? 3. What does Stein mean by ‘fusion’? What role does it play in her account? Does she have a compelling criticism of the view of fusion as ‘mere association’? 4. What is the significance of Stein’s description of the experience of emotional expression? 24 Lecture 9 (week 10): Embodiment II – the habitual body (Merleau-Ponty) Required Reading: Merleau-Ponty, M. 1945. The body as Object Mechanistic Physiology. In Moran, D. & Mooney, T. The Phenomenology Reader. London: Routledge, 2002. [S] Recommended Reading: Carman, T. 1999. The Body in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. Philosophical Topics 27 (1999) Also available at http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/188_s05/pdf/Carman_Body.pdf Further Reading: Bermúdez, J. L. 2005. The Phenomenology of Bodily Awareness. In D. W. Smith & A. L. Thomasson, eds. Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. Oxford University Press. Carman, T. 2008. Merleau-Ponty. London: Routledge, Ch.2 [S] 57
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