Allocca, Nunzio (Author)
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Volume: 52
Pages: 19-50
In his popular Descartes’s Error. Emotion, Reason, and Human Brain (1994) the neurologist Antonio Damasio claims that the modern efforts to understand emotions and cognition in neuro-biological terms were obstructed by the influence of the “Cartesian dualism” on Psychology. Yet, Descartes never considered cognition without taking the body and the brain into account. This article gives an historical overview of the development in Les passions de l’âme (1649) of a radically new “physiological psychology” of emotions, seeking to explain the embodied nature of human mind. The brain and the nervous system, according to Descartes, are involved not only in sense perception, attention, memory and imagination, but also in the account of emotional response. In the mid-1640’s Descartes sketches a psychosomatic explanation of the effects of the emotions of the soul on the body, based on the assumption that there are certain regular connections between emotions, bodily motions and states of mind.
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