Feeling pain and being in pain / by Nikola Grahek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grahek, Nikola, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pain perception.

Pain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 181 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2007]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Sad to say, much of what philosophers have to say about the mind these days is wisely ignored by serious researchers, but there is a fast growing cadre of philosophers of cognitive science or neurophilosophers who are well poised to contribute to the solution or resolution of these problems, and Nikola Grahek was one of these, leading the way for others before his untimely death at the end of September 2003. He had both the conceptual acuity of a well-trained philosopher and an intimate, broad-based knowledge of the empirical science relating to his chosen topic: pain. Putting the two together, and proceeding in a constructive, optimistic spirit, he came up with some startling and attention-shifting proposals about how to make sense of pain, revisionary proposals that should clarify the thinking of scientist and layperson alike."

Contents:

2 The Biological Function and Importance of Pain 7

3 Dissociation Phenomena in Human Pain Experience 29

4 Pain Asymbolia 41

5 How Is Pain without Painfulness Possible? 51

6 Conceptual and Theoretical Implications of Pain Asymbolia 73

7 Pain Quality and Painfulness without Pain 95

8 C-Fibers and All That 141.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

First edition published 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-173) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Grahek, Nikola. Feeling pain and being in pain.

ISBN:

9780262274234

026227423X

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