The myth of pain /
"Hardcastle offers a biologically based complex theory of pain processing, inhibition, and sensation and then uses this theory to make several arguments: (1) psychogenic pains do not exist; (2) a general lack of knowledge about fundamental brain function prevents us from distinguishing between...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
1999.
©1999 |
Colección: | Philosophical psychopathology. Disorders in mind.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Myths of Pain
- A Brief and Scattered History of Pain
- A Vague Road Map and Preview
- Pathological Pains
- Setting the Stage
- Are Pains a Mental Disorder?
- A Brief Tour of the Official Line
- The Psychology of Chronic Pain
- Methodological Ills
- Diagnostic Tools
- The Pain Personality
- Mind over Matter?
- The Terms of the Debate
- Mental Causation
- Naturalizing Content
- The Real Question
- In Defense of Lazy Materialism
- Distinctions and Definitions
- Defining Mental States
- Meeting Stich's Challenge: Philosophy's Place in Science
- Mental versus Physical Causes
- What We Don't Know about Brains: Two Competing Perspectives
- The Feature-Detection Perspective
- The Organization of the Brain
- The Feature-Detection Perspective on the Dorsal Horn
- Problems with the Perspective
- The Dynamical Systems Approach
- A Primer on Dynamical Systems
- A Reason to Switch
- A Dynamical Systems Perspective on the Dorsal Horn
- Problems with the Approach
- The Moral of the Story: Incompatible Approaches
- A Difference in Explanatory Strategies
- The Pragmatics of Neuroscience
- The Nature of Pain
- Pain as a Sensory System
- The Complexity of Our Sensory Systems
- A Sketch of Our Pain System
- Philosophy's Error
- The Awfulness of Pain
- Images of Pain
- The Emotion of Pain
- Chronic Pain Possibilities
- The Dynamical Approach
- When a Pain Isn't
- The Strangeness of Pain
- Correlations between Nociception and Perception
- Illusions of Pain
- IASP's Reaction.