Portugal, 1944
neuroscientist

Antonio Damasio

Antonio Damasio is a neuroscientist known for his pioneering research on how the brain deals with memories, language, emotions and decisions. He is world-famous for international bestsellers such as Descartes’ Error. Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (1994), Looking for Spinoza. Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain (2003) and Self Comes to Mind. Constructing the Conscious Brain (2010). His most recent work is Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures (2018). Damasio, who has been living and working in the US for many years, is David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California.

Published in

Journal Nexus
2014

Nexus 66

De triomf van de wetenschap
Journal Nexus
2013

Nexus 65

De universiteit van het leven
Journal Nexus

Nexus 51

Mijn Arcadië

Speaker at

magic mountain

Symposium

Cultivating the Human Spirit in Dispirited Times

The Magic Mountain Revisited

21 September 2019 9.15 - 17.00 National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam
Blake_william-Prometheus Bound

Conference

and the Secret of Man

The Triumph of Science

1 December 2013 13.00 - 17.45 Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam