Frédérique de Vignemont

Frédérique de Vignemont studies the philosophy of cognitive science and addresses bodily awareness from a multidisciplinary perspective, including questions concerning our sense of bodily ownership, the spatial content of bodily sensations, and the distinction between body schema and body image. Her research interests explore self-consciousness, disorders of agency and ownership, embodiment, pain, empathy, theory of mind and social cognition. She has been referee for journals Mind, Mind and Language, Philosophical Quarterly, Nous, Cognition, Consciousness and Cognition, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophiques, and Review of Philosophy and Psychology. She is currently writing a book on the body and the self, titled Mind the Body.