Bodily selves in relation: embodied simulation as second-person perspective on intersubjectivity

Bodily selves in relation: embodied simulation as second-person perspective on intersubjectivity.

This article addresses basic aspects of social cognition focusing on the pivotal role played by the lived body in the constitution of our experience of others. It is suggested that before studying intersubjectivity we should better qualify the notion of the self. A minimal notion of the self, the bodily self, defined in terms of its motor potentialities, is proposed. The discovery of mirror mec...

Vittorio Gallese -selected References

1 Gallese, V. (2014). Bodily selves in relation: embodied simulation as second-person perspective on intersubjectivity. Philos.Trans.R.Soc.Lond B Biol.Sci., 369, 20130177. Notes: This article addresses basic aspects of social cognition focusing on the pivotal role played by the lived body in the constitution of our experience of others. It is suggested that before studying intersubjectivity we ...

Intersubjectivity: Exploring Consciousness from the Second-person Perspective

Today, the study of consciousness within Western science and philosophy is polarized between investigations of third-person, objective, correlates (e.g., neuroscience and cognitive science) and investigations of first-person, subjective experience and phenomena (e.g., introspection and ~edita­ tion). These two perspectives set the terms of debate in contemporary consciousness research: Is consc...

Gallese, V. & Cuccio, V. (2015). The Paradigmatic Body - Embodied Simulation, Intersubjectivity, the Bodily Self, and Language

In this paper we propose a way in which cognitive neuroscience could provide new insights on three aspects of social cognition: intersubjectivity, the human self, and language. We emphasize the crucial role of the body, conceived as the constitutive source of pre-reflective consciousness of the self and of the other. We provide a critical view of contemporary social cognitive neuroscience, argu...

Embodied Agency and Habitual Selves