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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Handedness, self-models and embodied cognitive content

Holger Lyre

pp. 529-538

Abstract

The paper presents and discusses the "which-is-which content of handedness," the meaning of left as left and right as right, as a possible candidate for the idea of a genuine embodied cognitive content. After showing that the Ozma barrier, the non-transferability of the meaning of left and right, provides a kind of proof of the non-descriptive, indexical nature of the which-is-which content of handedness, arguments are presented which suggest that the classical representationalist account of cognition faces a perplexing problem of underdetermination of reference of left and right in the which-is-which sense. By way of contrast, no such problems occur in a framework were embodied contents are not mediated by some extra body model which carries the representational power, but are instead directly represented.

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(2008) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7 (4).

Pages: 529-538

DOI: 10.1007/s11097-007-9080-0

Full citation:

Lyre Holger (2008) „Handedness, self-models and embodied cognitive content“. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7 (4), 529–538.