Beschreibung:
Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, cognitive and behavioral psychology as well as those in health and medicine researching conceptual issues in pain.
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