The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain 1st Edition by Jennifer Corns ISBN 9781138823181 113882318X

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ISBN 10:  113882318X

ISBN 13: 9781138823181

Author: Jennifer Corns

The phenomenon of pain presents problems and puzzles for philosophers who want to understand its nature. Though pain might seem simple, there has been disagreement since Aristotle about whether pain is an emotion, sensation, perception, or disturbed state of the body. Despite advances in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, pain is still poorly understood and multiple theories of pain abound.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting and interdisciplinary subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into nine clear parts:

• Modeling pain in philosophy
• Modeling pain in neuroscience
• Modeling pain in psychology
• Pain in philosophy of mind
• Pain in epistemology
• Pain in philosophy of religion
• Pain in ethics
• Pain in medicine
• Pain in law

As well as fundamental topics in the philosophy of pain such as the nature, role, and value of pain, many other important topics are covered including the neurological pathways involved in pain processing; biopsychosocial and cognitive-behavioural models of pain; chronic pain; pain and non-human animals; pain and knowledge; controlled substances for pain; pain and placebo effects; and pain and physician-assisted suicide.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology and ethics. It will also be very useful to researchers of pain from any field, especially those in psychology, medicine, and health studies.

Table of contents:

 Introduction
Pain research: where we’ve been, where we’re going, and why it matters

Section 1: The Nature of Pain: what is Pain?

Part 1: Modeling Pain in Philosophy

1. A brief and potted overview on the philosophical theories of pain

2. Pain and representation

3. An evaluative account of pain’s unpleasantness

4. Imperativism

5. Fault lines in familiar concepts of pain

Part 2: Modeling Pain in Neuroscience
6. Advances in the neuroscience of pain
7. Neuromatrix theory of pain
8. A neurobiological view of pain as a homeostatic emotion
9. A view of pain based on sensations, meanings, and emotions
10. Pathophysiological mechanisms of chronic pain

Part 3: Modeling Pain in Psychology
11. Psychological models of pain
12. Biopsychosocial models of pain
13. Psychogenic pain: old and new
14. Pain, voluntary action, and the sense of agency

Section 2: Theoretical implications: why does pain matter, theoretically?

Part 4: Pain in philosophy of mind
15. The lives of others: pain in non-human animals
16. Robot Pain
17. Pain and consciousness
18. Pain: perception or introspection?

Part 5: Pain in epistemology
19. Pain and rationality
20. Pain and incorrigibility
21. Can I see your pain? An evaluative model of pain perception
22. Pain and cognitive penetrability

Part 6: Pain in philosophy of religion
23. Sacred pain: the use of self-inflicted pain in religion
24. The role of pain and Buddhism: the conquest of suffering
25. Pain and the divine
26. The problem of pain in the philosophy of religion

Section 3: Practical implications: why does pain matter, practically?

Part 7: Pain in ethics
27. Bad by nature: an axiological theory of pain
28. Pain and torture
29. Pain and education
30. Pain and justified evaluative belief

Part 8: Pain in medicine
31. An introduction to the IASP’s definition of pain
32. Pain and ‘placebo’ analgesia
33. Pain management

Part 9: Pain in Law
34. Pain and the law
35. Pain and controlled pain relieving substances
36. Fetal pain and the law: abortion laws and their relationship to ideas about pain
37. Pain, mental suffering, and physician-assisted death

Index

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