Lived Body, Intersubjectivity, and Intercorporeality: The Body in Phenomenology

A concise introduction to 4E cognition, the idea that the mind is embodied, embedded, extended and enactive, by one of the leading phenomenologists working today. It contrasts these views with classic cognitivism and ends with practical applications.

Shaun Gallagher

A clear introduction to Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception and its idea of the body as subject, placed against Husserl and against scientific realism.

Russell Keat

Separates what holds up and what does not in Merleau-Ponty's account of bodily awareness, using the evidence of experimental cognitive science.

José Luis Bermúdez

Proposes a model of how we experience the space of our own body, combining bottom-up sensation with top-down body representation.

Tony Cheng and Patrick Haggard

Uses the phenomenology of the body schema to understand the Gaga movement language in contemporary dance.

Anna Petronella Foultier