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Antonio Damasio

David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, and Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, USC

Antonio Damasio is the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California.

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: his most recent work, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain, explores the relationship between the brain and consciousness. Damasio’s research in neuroscience has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making.



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Books

Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

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The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

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

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Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

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The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

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