| DOMINIC W. MASSARO, editor
University of California, Santa Cruz
A Message to Be Heard
The Message Within. The Role of Subjective Experience in Social
Cognition and Behavior
Edited by Herbert Bless and Joseph P. Forgas. Philadelphia: Psychology Press,
2000. xvi + 403 pp. Paper, $34.95; Cloth, $64.95.
In recent years, the problem of subjective experience has become an important
issue in the philosophy of mind and in neuroscience. Whereas the philosophical
discussion on subjective aspects of mental processes was initiated in
the 1970s by a now classic paper of Thomas Nagel (1974),
neuroscientific interest in this issue has emerged in
recent years, inspired particularly by the work of Antonio
Damasio (1994, 1999). Another example is Lane and
Nadel's (2000) volume, The Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion.
It becomes increasingly clear that subjective, emotional
experience has a strong impact on cognitive processes;
even purely rational decisions are affected by
emotions.
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