Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

Antonio Damasio

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 September 2006
Pages
352
ISBN
9780099501640

Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

Antonio Damasio

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. Antonio Damasio challenged traditional ideas about the connection between emotions and rationality.

In this wonderfully engaging book, Damasio takes the reader on a journey of scientific discovery through a series of case studies, demonstrating what many of us have long suspected- emotions are not a luxury, they are essential to rational thinking and to normal social behaviour.

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