The Content of the Body Representations that Guide Everyday Action

• Main Author: Luis Alejandro Murillo Lara
• Format: Article
• Language: ces
• Published: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences 2020-02-01
• Series: Organon F
• Subjects: action; body representations; merleau-ponty; non-conceptual mental content
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27102

In this paper, I argue that activities as crossing the road, riding a bike or going through a door involve body representations with non-conceptual mental content. Firstly, I discuss some key objections to the notion of body representations for action, in order to draw out their main consequences. Then I introduce an approach to the content of body representations involved in the guidance of everyday action, which seems to satisfy crucial demands in exchange for moving away from conceptual views on mental content. I conclude by discussing a potential objection to that proposal and presenting some thoughts on the relationship between conceptual and non-conceptual content in this field.