Emoção e cognição: uma abordagem cientifica das emoções
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: The discussion on the scientific study of emotions, and consciousness in general, goes back to the beginning of modern science with Descartes' problem of the union between soul and body. The difficulty of explaining scientifically the relationship of emotions and mental faculties (or powers of the soul, how they were considered), with the body, presented two problems: the first problem was related to the concept of matter, as it was assigned in Cartesian physics; the second problem was related with an epistemological difficulty to explain the causal relation between two distinct substances (body / res extensa and soul / res cogitans ). Throughout the history of science, the cartesian physics and the dualist conception of matter have been widely criticized, refuted or modified, holding a debate on the nature of emotions and consciousness that lasts until today.
Source: Filosofia e História da Biologia
Author: Marisa Russo Lecointre
Institution: Université Paris Diderot
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2234548103