Orders of Consciousness and Forms of Reflexivity in Descartes

In Sara Heinämaa, Vili Lähteenmäki & Pauliina Remes, Consciousness: From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy. Springer. pp. 177-201 (2007)
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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. The paper argues that Descartes has a rich and coherent view of conscious mentality from rudimentary consciousness through reflexive consciousness to consciousness achieved by deliberate, attentive reflection.

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