Contenido mental y el cuerpo representado en la acción

“Mental Content and the Body as Represented in Action”. The existence of representations of the body, especially those that would be required to act, has been the subject of long controversies. The objective of this article is to defend the idea that there are representations of the body involved in...

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Autor: Murillo Jara, Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/22215
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/22215
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Representation of the body
Non-conceptual content: action
Specification of mental content
Representación del cuerpo
Contenido mental no-conceptual
Acción
Especificación del contenido mental
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Sumario:“Mental Content and the Body as Represented in Action”. The existence of representations of the body, especially those that would be required to act, has been the subject of long controversies. The objective of this article is to defend the idea that there are representations of the body involved in carrying out daily actions. Our thesis is that what some doubts really show about this type of representation is that they must have a certain type of non-conceptual content. First, we address these doubts, showing that they do not refute the existence of the representations in question. We note that they contain two insights for any characterization of the content of such representations. Thus, we come to propose a characterization such that it adequately accommodates the indicated intuitions. We conclude by examining a possible objection to the proposal and offering a tentative reading of the relationship between mental content and action.