Philosophy of pain: unpleasantness, emotion, and deviance

Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Table of Contents
 Contributors
 Introduction
 Part I: Pain, unpleasantness, and motivation
 Part II: Pain and emotion
 Part III: Deviant pain
 Note
 Part I: Pain, unpleasantness, and motivation
 Chapter 1: Imperativism and pain intensity
 1 Introduction
 2 Imperatives come in degrees
 3 Intensity and content
 4 Conclusion
 Notes
 Chapter 2: Reasons and theories of sensory affect
 1 Introduction
 2 Preliminary taxonomy
 3 Reductive theories of sensory affect
 4 Sensory affect and reasons
 5 Conclusion
 Notes Chapter 3: A neuroscience perspective on pleasure and pain
 Introduction
 1 The assessment of pleasure and pain
 2 The brain networks generating hedonic value
 3 The malleability of pain and pleasure: the importance of utility
 4 Hedonic value is modulated by motivational states
 5 Modulation of hedonic experience by expectations, learning, and contextual meaning
 6 Mixed emotions
 7 Conclusions
 Part II: Pain and emotion
 Chapter 4: The rationality of emotional and physical suffering
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 2
 3
 Notes
 Chapter 5: The placebo effect
 1 Introduction
 2 Cases
 3 Characterizations
 4 Utility 5 Intuitions
 6 Conclusion
 Notes
 Chapter 6: What is the affective component of pain?
 1 Introduction
 2 Identifying the affective component
 3 Benefits of the valence theory
 4 Objection: Aversive phenomenology
 5 Conclusion
 Acknowledgments
 Part III: Deviant pain
 Chapter 7: The unpleasantness of pain for humans and other animals
 Introduction
 1 The sensory/affective dissociation and why it matters for philosophers
 2 Searching for the affective dimension of pain in other species
 3 Connecting nonhuman and human studies of pain
 4 Is unpleasantness connected to learning and/or motivation? 5 Conclusion
 Notes
 Chapter 8: When is a pain not a pain? The challenge of disorders of consciousness
 Introduction
 1 Disorders of consciousness
 2 Consciousness and moral significance
 3 Pain processing in patients with disorders of consciousness
 4 The impact of pain
 Notes
 Chapter 9: The first-person in pain
 Introduction
 1 From pain to the sense of ownership
 2 From the sense of ownership to pain
 3 Alien pains
 4 Who cares whose body is in pain?
 5 Conclusion
 Acknowledgements
 Notes
 Bibliography
 Index