Contenido mental y el cuerpo representado en la acción

• Autor: Murillo Jara, Luis
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/22215
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/22215
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Representation of the body; Non-conceptual content: action; Specification of mental content; Representación del cuerpo; Contenido mental no-conceptual; Acción; Especificación del contenido mental

“Mental Content and the Body as Represented in Action”. The existence of representations of the body, especially those that would be required to act, has been the subject of long controversies. The objective of this article is to defend the idea that there are representations of the body involved in carrying out daily actions. Our thesis is that what some doubts really show about this type of representation is that they must have a certain type of non-conceptual content. First, we address these doubts, showing that they do not refute the existence of the representations in question. We note that they contain two insights for any characterization of the content of such representations. Thus, we come to propose a characterization such that it adequately accommodates the indicated intuitions. We conclude by examining a possible objection to the proposal and offering a tentative reading of the relationship between mental content and action.