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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

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Preface-Introduction

Part 1, Chapters 1-4

Part 2, Chapters 5-8

Part 3, Chapter 9-Postscriptum

To what extent does the Phineas Gage case challenge Cartesian philosophy?

What is the main argument that Damasio’s somatic-marker hypothesis poses, and what is the reasoning behind it?

To what extent does considering the mind and body as complementary systems in the evolutionary process modify our approach to neuroscientific research?