DAMASIO ANTONIO

Η ΠΑΡΑΞΕΝΗ ΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΩΝ
Γραμμένο από έναν κορυφαίο νευροεπιστήμονα, ένα έργο-σταθμός που συνδέει τις επιστήμες της βιολογίας και της κοινωνιολογίας και προσφέρει έναν νέο τρόπο κατανόησης της προέλευσης της ζωής, των συναισθημάτων και του πολιτισμού. Το "Η Παράξενη Κατάσταση των Πραγμάτων" αποτελεί μια πρωτοποριακή διερεύνηση της ομοιόστασης, αυτής της ικανότητας του οργανισμού να διατηρεί σε μια κατάσταση σταθερότητας τις εσωτερικές λειτουργίες του, αντιμετωπίζοντας τις μεταβολές του περιβάλλοντος και ρυθμίζοντας έτσι την ανθρώπινη ψυχολογία, ώστε να είναι δυνατ...
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(P/B) THE FEELING OF WHAT HAPPENS
Neurophysiology expert, Professor Damasio, shows how consciousness develops out of mental and physical feeling in this poetic and illuminating book. One of the world's leading experts on the neurophysiology of emotions, Professor Damasio shows how our consciousness, our sense of being, arose out of development of emotion. At its core, human consciousness is consciousness of the feeling, experiencing self, the 'very thought of' oneself. Brilliantly wide-ranging in his scope, Damasio illustrates his thesis with fascinating and illuminating ...
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(P/B) DESCARTES' ERROR
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. Even modern neuroscience has tended until recently to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude began to change with the publication of Descartes' Error. Antonio Damasio challenged traditional ideas about the connection between emotions and rationality. In this wonderfully engaging book, Damasio takes the reader on a journey of scien...
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(P/B) SELF COMES TO MIND
A profound and groundbreaking new book telling the story of consciousness and the human mind, from one of the world's leading neuroscientists. Winner of the CORINE International Book Award 2011. From one of the most important neuroscientists at work today, a path-breaking investigation of a question that has confounded neurologists, philosophers, cognitive scientists and psychologists for centuries: how is consciousness created? Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years studying and writing about how the brain operates, and his wor...
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(P/B) LOOKING FOR SPINOZA
Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to explain and not to be essential for comprehending human rationality and understanding, they have largely been ignored. But not by the great seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Spinoza. And not by Antonio Damasio. In this book Dr. Damasio draws on his innovative research and on his experience with neurological patients to examine how feelings and the emotions that underlie them support the governance of huma...
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(P/B) THE STRANGE ORDER OF THINGS
The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular existence and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our very ...
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(P/B) THE STRANGE ORDER OF THINGS

ΤΟ ΛΑΘΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΑΡΤΕΣΙΟΥ
Ο συγγραφέας του παρόντος βιβλίου διατυπώνει την άποψη ότι η διάκριση ανάμεσα στις παθήσεις του εγκεφάλου και της ψυχής, ανάμεσα σε «νευρολογικά» και «ψυχολογικά» ή «ψυχιατρικά» προβλήματα είναι μια ατυχής πολιτιστική κληρονομιά, η οποία αντανακλά την βασική μας άγνοια της σχέσης εγκεφάλου-νου. Η «κλασική ψυχολογία έχει πεθάνει», αναφέρει ο Michael Gazzaniga στην εισαγωγή του βιβλίου. Το παρελθόν του Νου, και ο Damasio προχωρεί περισσότερο λέγοντας: «Η νευροψυχολογία δεν είναι ή δεν θα έπρεπε να είναι αρμόδια στο να εντοπίζει την εγκεφ...
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