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1 online resource (ix, 224 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Pain, unpleasantness, and motivation; Part II: Pain and emotion; Part III: Deviant pain; Note; Part I: Pain, unpleasantness, and motivation; Chapter 1: Imperativism and pain intensity; 1 Introduction; 2 Imperatives come in degrees; 3 Intensity and content; 4 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2: Reasons and theories of sensory affect; 1 Introduction; 2 Preliminary taxonomy; 3 Reductive theories of sensory affect; 4 Sensory affect and reasons; 5 Conclusion; Notes |
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Chapter 3: A neuroscience perspective on pleasure and pain; Introduction; 1 The assessment of pleasure and pain; 2 The brain networks generating hedonic value; 3 The malleability of pain and pleasure: the importance of utility; 4 Hedonic value is modulated by motivational states; 5 Modulation of hedonic experience by expectations, learning, and contextual meaning; 6 Mixed emotions; 7 Conclusions; Part II: Pain and emotion; Chapter 4: The rationality of emotional and physical suffering; 1; 2; 3; Notes; Chapter 5: The placebo effect; 1 Introduction; 2 Cases; 3 Characterizations; 4 Utility |
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5 Intuitions; 6 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: What is the affective component of pain?; 1 Introduction; 2 Identifying the affective component; 3 Benefits of the valence theory; 4 Objection: Aversive phenomenology; 5 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Part III: Deviant pain; Chapter 7: The unpleasantness of pain for humans and other animals; Introduction; 1 The sensory/affective dissociation and why it matters for philosophers; 2 Searching for the affective dimension of pain in other species; 3 Connecting nonhuman and human studies of pain; 4 Is unpleasantness connected to learning and/or motivation? |
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5 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 8: When is a pain not a pain? The challenge of disorders of consciousness; Introduction; 1 Disorders of consciousness; 2 Consciousness and moral significance; 3 Pain processing in patients with disorders of consciousness; 4 The impact of pain; Notes; Chapter 9: The first-person in pain; Introduction; 1 From pain to the sense of ownership; 2 From the sense of ownership to pain; 3 Alien pains; 4 Who cares whose body is in pain?; 5 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 clear sections - pain and motivation, pain and emotion, and deviant pain - the collection covers fundamental topics in the philosophy and psychology of pain. These include pain and sensory affect, the neuroscience of pain, pain and rationality, placebos, and pain and consciousness. -- From publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pain -- Philosophy
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Pain -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bain, David (Reader in Philosophy), editor.
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Brady, Michael, 1965- editor.
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Corns, Jennifer, editor
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| ISBN |
9781351115858 |
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1351115855 |
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9781351115865 |
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1351115863 |
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