What to Read After Descartes' error
Readers who loved Descartes' error by Antonio R. Damasio keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Descartes' error is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Descartes' error
In Search of Memory
The Emotional Brain
An Anthropologist on Mars
Conversations on consciousness
Philosophy in the flesh
The astonishing hypothesis
The Quest for Consciousness
The illusion of conscious will
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness
Supersizing the mind
A Universe of Consciousness
Phantoms in the brain : probing the mysteries of the human mind
Self comes to mind
The Blank Slate
Consciousness explained
Synaptic Self
How the Mind Works
The Mind and the Brain
The Language Instinct
Darwin's dangerous idea
Consilience
Proust was a neuroscientist
The Stuff of Thought
The Mind's I