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EVERYDAY THINKING ABOUT BODILY SENSATIONS Todd Ganson and Dorit Ganson In the opening section of this paper we spell out an account of our na?ve view of bodily sensations that is of historical and philosophical significance. This account of our shared view of bodily sensations captures common ground between Descartes, who endorses an error theory regarding our everyday thinking about bodily sensations, and Berkeley, who is more sympathetic with commonsense. In the second part of the paper we develop an alternative to this account and discuss what is at stake in deciding between these two