Proprioceiving someone else's movement
Author:
Barbara Montero a
| Affiliation: | a The City University of New York, The Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, New York, NY, USA |
DOI:
10.1080/13869790600641848
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3 issues per year
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Philosophy of Mind;
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Abstract
Proprioception—the sense by which we come to know the positions and movements of our bodies—is thought to be necessarily confined to the body of the perceiver. That is, it is thought that while proprioception can inform you as to whether your left knee is bent or straight, it cannot inform you as to whether someone else's knee is bent or straight. But while proprioception certainly provides us with information about the positions and movements of our own bodies, I will argue that it does more than that. Surprising as this may sound, one can proprioceive someone else's movement. To show this, I first present the results of some studies that suggest that in seeing others move, we kinesthetically represent their movement in our bodies. I then argue, by means of an analogy to prosthetic vision, that such 'kinesthetic vision' should count as proprioceiving others move.
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