An eminent neuroscientist explores the science of human emotion and what the great Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza can teach of how and why we feel. Damasio shows how joy and sorrow, those most defining of human feelings, are the cornerstones of our survival and culture.[...]

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 [...]

The last in a trilogy of books that investigates the philosophical and scientific foundations of human life Joy, sorrow, jealousy, and awe--these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza devoted much of his life's work examining how the[...]

Gjennom en rekke eksempler fra nevrologien, dvs. pasienter med en eller annen lokaliserbar hjernesvikt, argumenterer forfatteren for eksistensen av to bevissthetsdimensjoner, en "kjernebevissthet" og en "autobiografisk bevissthet", at disse er knyttet til bestemte kjernestrukturer, at selvets bestan[...]

På lättflytande fackprosa presenterar Antonio Damasio det aktuella kunskapsläget kring hjärnans betydelse för känsla och förnuft. Han för också läsaren in i filosofiska resonemang kring de nya insikterna om vår hjärna och varför Descartes gjorde ett misstag när han en gång i tiden ski[...]