Descartes Error

Informationen zum Autor Antonio Damasio Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Antonio Damasio, Antonio R. Damasio, Damasio Antonio
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.2006
• EAN: 9780099501640
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950164-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology: emotions, Neurosciences