Projekt

The body, as the subject or the object of our experience, mediates all our interactions between our mind and the world. Not surprisingly, both the human experience of the body itself and the concepts used to depict it are steeped in cultural and intellectual history. However, the experience of the body is rarely invoked in a unanimous manner in life sciences, mind sciences and the humanities. Could the experience of one's body be conceptualized as a straight physiological process, a psychological structure, or an essentially private, scientifically inaccessible, subjective event? The project prototypical combines different components of bodily experience: the sense of body-ownership ("this my body"); the sense of agency ("this is my action"); the bodily first-person perspective (e.g. "the pen is to my left"). Eight focused and interrelated research projects will investigate the complex interdependent relations between body and actions, body and self, and body and world.

• Prof. Dr. Manos Tsakiris

  Royal Holloway University of London
  Department of Psychology
  Egham
  Grossbritannien
  

• Dr. Aikaterini Fotopoulou

  King's College London
  Psychological Medicine
  Institute of Psychiatry
  London
  Grossbritannien
  

• Dr. Dorothée Legrand

  CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche
  Scientifique
  Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie
  Appliquée
  Paris
  Frankreich
  

• Dr. Matthis Synofzik

  Universität Tübingen
  Hertie-Institut für Klinische Hirnforschung
  Abteilung für Neurodegeneration &
  Abteilung für Kognitive Neurologie
  Tübingen
  

• Bigna Lenggenhager, Ph. D.

  École Polytechnique Fédérale
  de Lausanne (EPFL)
  Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (LNCO)
  Brain Mind Institute
  Lausanne
  Schweiz
  

• Philipp Huebl

  Rheinisch-Westfälische
  Technische Hochschule Aachen
  Abt. für Philosophie
  Aachen
  

• Nicole David

  Universität Köln
  Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
  Köln
  

• Dr. Lambros Malafouris

  University of Cambridge
  McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
  Cambridge
  Grossbritannien
  

• Dr. Simone Schütz-Bosbach

  Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions-
  und Neurowissenschaften
  Standort Leipzig
  Junior Research Group
  "Body and Self"
  Leipzig
  

• Jennifer Windt

  Universität Mainz
  Philosophisches Seminar
  Mainz