On the content and character of pain experience

Gray, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6923-6183 2019. On the content and character of pain experience. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 100 (1) , pp. 47-68. 10.1111/papq.12261

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Abstract

Tracking representationalism explains the negative affective character of pain, and its capacity to motivate action, by reference to the representation of the badness for us of bodily damage. I argue that there is a more fitting instantiation of the tracking relation – the badness for us of extremely intense stimuli – and use this to motivate a non‐reductive approach to the negative affective character of pain. The view of pain proposed here is supported by consideration of three related topics: the pain caused when the body is damaged, reparative pain and the messenger‐shooting objection to tracking representationalism.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0279-0750
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 November 2018
Date of Acceptance:	15 October 2018
Last Modified:	12 Nov 2024 20:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/116505

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