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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Klein, Colin, 1979- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2015.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.