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Pain and mental imagery
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Author
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Abstract
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| One of the most promising trends both in the neuroscience of pain and in psychiatric treatments of chronic pain is the focus on mental imagery. My aim is to argue that if we take these findings seriously, we can draw very important and radical philosophical conclusions. I argue that what we pretheoretically take to be pain is partly constituted by sensory stimulation-driven pain processing and partly constituted by mental imagery. This general picture can explain some problematic cases of pain perception, for example, phantom-limb pain, and it also has important consequences for some recent philosophical debates about the nature and content of pain. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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The monist : an international quarterly journal of general philosophical inquiry. - Chicago, Ill., 1888, currens
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Publication
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Chicago, Ill.
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The Open Court Publishing Co
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2017
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ISSN
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0026-9662
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2153-3601
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DOI
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10.1093/MONIST/ONX024
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Volume/pages
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100
:4
(2017)
, p. 485-500
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ISI
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000412337200004
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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