抄録
In this paper I focus on the roles of proprioception and of perception in forming the cognitive picture of ourselves as physical agents in the world. Our proprioceptive awareness is plausibly characterized in terms of its distinctive epistemic unmediatedness and constancy, and this fact may seem to support the view that the primary core of our self-conception is constituted by our proprioceptive self-awareness, not by ordinary modes of self-perception. I criticize some main arguments for this view, and suggest that the proper understanding of the significance of proprioception needs the appreciation of its intricate involvement with our perceptual bodilyawareness. I conclude with the remark that the notion of basic action should be restored on this epistemological footing.
