by Antonio Damasio · Editorial Crítica · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484327875
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«El error de Descartes» is the neuroscience essay by Antonio Damasio, published by Editorial Crítica in paperback (344 pages, in Spanish).
Damasio argues that Descartes was wrong to separate the mind from the body: emotions and feelings are essential parts of human reason and decision-making. Drawing on clinical cases and neuroscience, the author explains how the brain and the organism form an inseparable whole and how images, memory, and regulatory mechanisms sustain mental activity.
The work was originally published in 1994, and this Spanish edition from 2006 is part of the Drakontos Bolsillo collection.
For readers interested in neuroscience and the philosophy of mind, with clinical cases that make it understandable how emotions guide reason.
Antonio Damasio is a Portuguese neuroscientist. He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, and, additionally, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. He was previously the chair of neurology at the University of Iowa for 20 years. Damasio heads the Brain and Creativity Institute, and has authored several books. Damasio's research in neuroscience has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making.
