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Philosophy of Pain Unpleasantness, Emotion, and Deviance

234 Pages

by Routledge

234 Pages

by Routledge

234 Pages

by Routledge

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Over recent decades, pain has received increasing attention as philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists try to answer deep and difficult questions about it. What is pain? What makes pain unpleasant? How is pain related to the emotions? This volume provides a rich and wide-ranging exploration of these questions and important new insights into the philosophy of pain. Divided into three... Read more

Introduction David Bain, Michael Brady, and Jennifer Corns Part I: Pain, unpleasantness, and motivation 1. Imperativism and pain intensity Colin Klein and Manolo Martínez 2. Pain and theories of sensory affect Murat Aydede and Matthew Fulkerson 3. A neuroscience perspective on pleasure and pain Dan-Mikael Ellingson, Morten Kringlebach, and Siri Leknes Part II: Pain and emotion 4. The rationality of emotional and physical suffering Michael Brady 5. The placebo effect Jennifer Corns 6. What is the affective component of pain? Jesse Prinz Part III: Deviant pain 7. The unpleasantness of pain for humans and other animals Adam Shriver 8. When is a pain not a pain? The challenge of disorders of consciousness Valerie Gray Hardcastle 9. The first-person in pain Frédérique de Vignemont. Bibliography Index