Wednesday\, Oct 23\, 2019
5:30 pm – 7
:30 pm
Frederic Lasserre\, Room 104
This lecture is free \, registration is not required.
Please contact the AHVA Vis ual Resources Centre for access to the event recording: ahva.vrc@ubc.ca.
Join Professor Frédérique de Vigne mont as she pursues a conceptual and empirical investigation on the notion of self-awareness\, in its relation both to social awareness and to bodily awareness. Her recent book\, Mind the Body: An Exploration of Bodily Se lf-Awareness (Oxford University Press\, 2018)\, provides the first com prehensive treatment of bodily awareness and the sense of bodily ownership\ , combining philosophical analysis with experimental results from cognitive science\, to answer the question: What makes us feel this particular b ody as our own?
In her talk\, Prof. de Vignemont will take as a starting point the similarities and differences between hands and tools. Sh e will argue that even if we can perfectly control the tool\, and can even feel sensations at its tip\, we still do not experience the tool as part of our own body. The crucial question is why\, is it because tools generally do not look like body parts?What about prostheses? Or is it because one nev er feels pain on a tool? She will argue that our body feels as our own beca use it has a unique affective significance. In evolutionary terms\, we need to protect our body for survival. This is what is at the origin of this mi nimal form of self-awareness.
Dr.
Frédérique de Vignemont is a CNRS researcher and Deputy Director of the
Jean Nicod Institute in Paris. She is the author of Mind the Body: An E
xploration of Bodily Self-Awareness (Oxford University Press\, 2018) a
nd co-editor of The Subject’s Matter (MIT Press\, 2017).
This lecture is part of the Peter Wall Institute’s French Scholars Lecture Series and is co-hosted by the Departm ent of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory\, and co-sponsored by the Depart ment of French\, Hispanic and Italian Studies and the Department of Philoso phy.
The French Scholars Lecture Series is a partnership between the P eter Wall Institute and the Consulate General of France in Vancouver.
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