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Consciousness

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-1-4020-6082-3

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Consciousness: From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy shows that the concept of consciousness was explicated relatively late in the tradition, but that its central features, such as reflexivity, subjectivity and aboutness, attained avid interest very early in philosophical debates. This book reveals how these features have been related to other central topics, such as selfhood, perception, attention and embodiment. At the same time, the articles display that consciousness is not just an isolated issue of philosophy of mind, but is bound to ontological, epistemological and moral discussions. Integrating historical inquiries into the systematic ones enables understanding the complexity and richness of conscious phenomena.


Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Aristotle, Avicenna, Consciousness, Edmund Husserl, Intentionality, Kant, Medieval philosophy, Plato, Reflexivity, Spinoza, Subjectivity, ancient philosophy, concept, history of philosophy, psychology