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

Author：Antonio Damasio

Paperback: 312 pages

Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (1 Sept. 2005)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 014303622X

ISBN-13: 978-0143036227

Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 1.5 x 19.6 cm

書籍簡介

Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. 

作者簡介

Antonio Damasio, a neurologist and neuroscientist, is at the University of Southern California, where he directs a new brain research institute dedicated to the study of emotion and creativity. He is also an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute.

The recipient of numerous awards (several shared with his wife Hanna Damasio, also a neurologist and neuroscientist), he is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of two other widely acclaimed books, The Felling of What Happens and Looking for Spinoza.