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29 de jul. de 2010 · Seventeenth-Century Theories of Consciousness. First published Thu Jul 29, 2010; substantive revision Fri Mar 6, 2020. In the seventeenth century, “consciousness” began to take on a uniquely modern sense.
The main line of evidence for this reading of Descartes are the texts above—if it's conceptually possible to doubt that our conscious thoughts do in fact represent anything, and if thought is defined in terms of consciousness, then it seems that consciousness will be the more fundamental concept.
Abstract. Chapter 1 historically situates the interpretation of consciousness in Locke. Early in the seventeenth century came the realization that not all forms of self-awareness are captured by the notion of conscience as an internal moral or evaluative awareness of oneself.
Discussions of consciousness as we know them began in earnest in the late seventeenth/early eighteenth century — largely under the influence of Cartesianism. This at least is the acknowledged historical source of present-day contributions to the theory of consciousness.
- Udo Thiel
- 1991
16 de oct. de 2020 · I focus on how brain physiology and conceptions of consciousness and cognition figured in the justification of metaphysical alternatives. Examples include the theory of animal spirits, Hobbes’ mechanistic materialism, Malebranche’s parallelism and occasionalism, Spinoza’s monism, Leibniz’s monadology.
- Paolo Pecere
- paolo.pecere@uniroma3.it
- 2020
Soul and mind: life and thought in the seventeenth century; By Daniel Garber; Edited by Daniel Garber, University of Chicago, Michael Ayers, University of Oxford; Book: The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy; Online publication: 28 March 2008; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521307635.025
theory and therapeutic practice well beyond the seventeenth century (Temkin 1973: 181; Siraisi 1990: 97; Wear 1995: 360). Burton grounds his extraordinary and influential compendium of ideas about melancholy in a
