Embodied agents,narrative selves |
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| Authors: | Catriona Mackenzie |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Philosophy Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australiacatriona.mackenzie@mq.edu.au |
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| Abstract: | Recent work on diachronic agency has challenged the predominantly structural or synchronic approach to agency that is characteristic of much of the literature in contemporary philosophical moral psychology. However, the embodied dimensions of diachronic agency continue to be neglected in the literature. This article draws on phenomenological perspectives on embodiment and narrative conceptions of the self to argue that diachronic agency and selfhood are anchored in embodiment. In doing so, the article also responds to Diana Meyers' recent work on corporeal selfhood. |
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| Keywords: | diachronic agency narrative identity self embodiment corporeality first-person perspective autonomy |
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