Organon F

Volume 27, February 2020, Issue 1, Pages 29–55

ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)

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.

Action; body representations; Merleau-Ponty; non-conceptual mental content.

Author

Luis Alejandro Murillo Lara

Affiliation

Universitaria Agustiniana

Address

Universitaria Agustiniana, Avenida Ciudad de Cali No. 11b-95, 110821, Bogotá, Colombia

E-mail

luisalejandro.murillo@gmail.com 

Received

9 August 2018

Accepted

31 May 2019

Published online

4 July 2019

Publishers

Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences

APA

Murillo Lara, L.A. (2020). The Content of the Body Representations that Guide Everyday Action. Organon F, 27(1), 29–55. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27102

Chicago

Murillo Lara, Luis Alejandro. 2020. "The Content of the Body Representations that Guide Everyday Action." Organon F 27 (1): 29–55. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27102

Harvard

Murillo Lara, L.A. (2020). The Content of the Body Representations that Guide Everyday Action. Organon F, 27(1), pp. 29–55. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27102

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