2012, Number 4
Did damasio solve the problem of mind anyway? And the dualism keeps along the way
Coelho RMLA
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Language: Spanish
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Page: 1398-1411
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ABSTRACT
Damasio is one of the most famous neuroscientist writers of our era. His ideas about dualism, self and consciousness marked the last two decades. With this short paper I will stress some of the two major errors that Damasio keeps presenting in his papers and books. He never had courage to repair the unfair error attributed to Descartes, and his own theory of mind is far away of being clearly accepted. Some considerations about his work and his philosophical statements will be presented and his role as a Spinosian monism guardian or, on contraire, a hidden dualistic scientist will also be debated.