The aim of the book is to examine the normal functioning of the brain through its disorders, that is, to find out which parts of the brain are normally responsible for which emotions. The author presents a neurobiology of practical rationality through a neurobiology of the emotions. For this, he uses the hypothesis of ‘somatic markers’, which restrict the choice of practical reasoning so that the only choices that are left open are those that have passed, so to say, the examination of these markers. When these markers are destroyed, they do not restrict any of the choices of practical reason, but they make it impossible for practical reason to make any decisions. “Descartes’ error” was to separate the soul, or conscience, from these somatic...
Review of: Fernández, R.M. (Coord.) (2014). Neuropsychology of infantile abandonment and mistreatmen...
My aim in this paper is, on the one hand, to point out the novelty and the deep interest of Damasio’...
Ludwig Wittgenstein is the most famous philosopher of modern times but very few understand his pione...
The aim of the book is to examine the normal functioning of the brain through its disorders, that is...
The legacy of René Descartes' notorious dualism of mind and body extends far beyond academia into ev...
Abstract. Here I present a sympathetic but critical analysis of Damasio's latest book. I begin ...
In his oft-cited book Descartes' Error, Antonio Damasio claims that Descartes is responsible for hav...
Keywords: Dualism, Réné Descartes, Antonio Damasio, body, ...
TLP is a remarkable document which continues to seduce some the best minds in philosophy, with new b...
Rene ́ Descartes was not the first person to suggest an explanation of how the structures in the bra...
This online version of my review of Stanislas Dehaene’s (2014) book on Consciousness and the Brain a...
Traditionally, cognition and emotion are seen as separate domains that are independent at best and i...
The aim of this paper is to show that Descartes' theory of the passions of the soul anticipates A. D...
El neurobiólogo Antonio Damasio, autor de experimentos clave para entender los enlaces entre diferen...
In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a number of ‘liberal Jesuit scholastics’ produced the las...
Review of: Fernández, R.M. (Coord.) (2014). Neuropsychology of infantile abandonment and mistreatmen...
My aim in this paper is, on the one hand, to point out the novelty and the deep interest of Damasio’...
Ludwig Wittgenstein is the most famous philosopher of modern times but very few understand his pione...
The aim of the book is to examine the normal functioning of the brain through its disorders, that is...
The legacy of René Descartes' notorious dualism of mind and body extends far beyond academia into ev...
Abstract. Here I present a sympathetic but critical analysis of Damasio's latest book. I begin ...
In his oft-cited book Descartes' Error, Antonio Damasio claims that Descartes is responsible for hav...
Keywords: Dualism, Réné Descartes, Antonio Damasio, body, ...
TLP is a remarkable document which continues to seduce some the best minds in philosophy, with new b...
Rene ́ Descartes was not the first person to suggest an explanation of how the structures in the bra...
This online version of my review of Stanislas Dehaene’s (2014) book on Consciousness and the Brain a...
Traditionally, cognition and emotion are seen as separate domains that are independent at best and i...
The aim of this paper is to show that Descartes' theory of the passions of the soul anticipates A. D...
El neurobiólogo Antonio Damasio, autor de experimentos clave para entender los enlaces entre diferen...
In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a number of ‘liberal Jesuit scholastics’ produced the las...
Review of: Fernández, R.M. (Coord.) (2014). Neuropsychology of infantile abandonment and mistreatmen...
My aim in this paper is, on the one hand, to point out the novelty and the deep interest of Damasio’...
Ludwig Wittgenstein is the most famous philosopher of modern times but very few understand his pione...