The Paradox of Pain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10691836 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Bradley (0000-0002-7901-7563, Auburn University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqaa084 |
| OpenAlex | W3124936504 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 34 |
Bodily pain strikes many philosophers as deeply paradoxical. The issue is that pains seem to bear both physical characteristics, such as a location in the body, and mental characteristics, such being mind-dependent. In this paper I clarify and address this alleged paradox of pain. I begin by showing how a further assumption, Objectivism, the thesis that what one feels in one’s body when one is in pain is something mind-independent, is necessary for the generation of the paradox. Consequently, the paradox can be avoided if one rejects this idea. However, doing so raises its own difficulties, for it is not obvious how anything can possess all of the features we typically associate with bodily pain. To address this puzzle and finally put the paradox of pain to rest, I develop the Embodied View, a novel metaphysical account on which pains are constitutively mind-dependent features of parts of a subject’s body
Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Mind–body problem · Objectivism · Philosophy of mind · Physical body · Rest (music) · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · Medicine · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Pain Management and Placebo Effect · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology
Perception
Pain
Naturalizing The Mind
Perception and the Fall from Eden
How to speak of the colors
Color realism and color science
XIV—Ontological Dependence
In Defense of Representationalism
The Mind's Construction
Ten Problems of Consciousness
Unfelt pain
Pain Perception
The Will, a Dual Aspect Theory
Intentionalism Defended
"Self-Knowledge and "Inner Sense
Sensible Over-Determination
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |