Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

Author(s) : Antonio Damasio

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

Book Details

  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Published : July 2006
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Category :
    Popular Psychology
  • Category 2 :
    Neuroscience
  • Catalogue No : 17487
  • ISBN 13 : 9780099501640
  • ISBN 10 : 0099501643
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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.

About the Author(s)

Born in Portugal, Antonio Damasio is Van Allen Distinguished Professor and head of the department of neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. He is the author of Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain and The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness.

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