Descartes' Error
Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
$38.29
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2006
Summary
Professor Antonio Damasio reassesses a history of philosophy and science that has long valued rationality over emotion.
In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, ‘I think, therefore I am,’ science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended until recently to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude began to change with the publication of Descartes’ Error. Anton…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099501640 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099501643 |
| Author: | Antonio Damasio |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 23mm |
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A thought-provoking account
A thought-provoking account * New Scientist *Rich in provocative concepts about intelligence, memory, creativity and passion * Los Angeles Times *idiosyncratic and engaging * The Times *Damasio is a profound thinker and an elegant writer…Descartes’ Error is a fascinating exploration of the biology of reason and its inseparable dependence on emotion – Oliver SacksCrucial reading * New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Antonio Damasio
Antonio Damasio is a University Professor, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Neurology, and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. Damasio’s other books include Self Comes to Mind, Looking for Spinoza and The Feeling of What Happens. He has received the Honda Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, and, shared with his wife Hanna, the Pessoa, Signoret, and Cozzarelli prizes. Damasio is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lives in Los Angeles.
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