APPERCEPTION, APPERCEVOIR, S' APPERCEVOIR DE. EVOLUTION D'UN TERME ET D'UNE FONCTION COGNITIVE

Abstract

Apperception is undoubtedly one of the most important terms in Leibniz’s Monadology, both for its neological nature and its central role in the epistemological and psychological Leibnizian thought. I will discuss the reflections made by Leibniz in the Nouveaux Essais on the subject and its cognitive faculties. I will thus concentrate on the French translation of the Lockean Essay concerning Humane Understanding, which led up to the creation of apperception, as substantive, in the context of the 17th and 18th centuries philosophy.