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This paper confronts the modern findings of neuroscience presented in the works of Antonio Damasio with classic and contemporary concepts regarding the phenomenon of self / identity developed on the basis of the social sciences. In my view, both types of consideration involve illegitimate reduction of presented phenomena either by inadequate analysis of social entities, or by underestimating their biological basis.

THE BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF IDENTITY IN THE WORKS OF ANTONIO DAMASIO. THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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This paper confronts the modern findings of neuroscience presented in the works of Antonio Damasio with classic and contemporary concepts regarding the...

THE BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF IDENTITY IN THE WORKS OF ANTONIO DAMASIO. THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

Published Online: Oct 31, 2017

Page range: 227 - 238

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2017-0026

Keywords
self, identity, neuroscience, sociology, emergence

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

THE BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF IDENTITY IN THE WORKS OF ANTONIO DAMASIO. THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

Published Online: Oct 31, 2017

Page range: 227 - 238

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2017-0026

Keywordsself, identity, neuroscience, sociology, emergence

© Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
self, identity, neuroscience, sociology, emergence