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(2007) Consciousness: from perception to reflection in the history of philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer.
Descartes affords several notions of consciousness as he explains the characteristics of the diverse features of human thought from infancy to adulthood and from dreaming to attentive wakefulness. I will argue that Descartes provides the resources for a rich and coherent view of conscious mentality from rudimentary consciousness through reflexive consciousness to consciousness achieved by deliberate, attentive reflection. I shall begin by making two general yet important remarks concerning the conceptual starting points of my investigation.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6082-3_8
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Lähteenmäki, V. (2007)., Orders of consciousness and forms of reflexivity in Descartes, in S. Heinämaa, V. Lähteenmäki & P. Remes (eds.), Consciousness: from perception to reflection in the history of philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 177-201.
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