Abstract

Abstract Descartes defined the human mind as “thinking substance,” and claimed that consciousness is essential to mental states. This chapter will examine both Descartes’s conception of the mind as absolutely distinct from the body and its proper modes/thoughts, and the ways in which La Forge, in his Traité de l’esprit de l’homme, adopts and adapts that mind–body dualism, especially with respect to the distinction between sensory states and intellectual ideas, intentionality, and consciousness.

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