The Feeling of What Happens (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Antonio R. Damasio
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Science, medicine, philosophy, and psychology
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Science and technology, Psychology
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Philosophy or philosophers, Psychology or psychologists, Emotions, Medicine, 1990’s, Consciousness, Evolution
- Locales: United States
Antonio Damasio is the M. W. Van Allen Distinguished Professor and head of the department of neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City. He is the author of numerous scholarly papers and monographs and of the well-received Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (1994), in which he argues that feelings are essential to making good decisions.
The question at the heart of The Feeling of What Happens is how the brain permits the experiencing organism to know that it is having an emotion. Damasio has researched this problem of...
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