What the body commands : the imperative theory of pain /
"In What the Body Commands, Colin Klein proposes and defends a novel theory of pain. Klein argues that pains are imperative; they are sensations with a content, and that content is a command to protect the injured part of the body. He terms this view 'imperativism about pain, ' and ar...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Puzzles about pain
- Homeostatic sensations and imperative content
- Pain and imperatives
- Pain and suffering
- The general content of pains
- Motivation and reasons
- Location and quality
- Intensity
- Objections, replies, and elaborations
- Why not some other state?
- Pain asymbolia and lost capacities
- Asymbolia, motivation, and the self
- Masochistic pleasures
- Imperatives and suffering.