What Pain Asymbolia Really Shows
Description
Pain asymbolics feel pain, but act as if they are indifferent to it. Nikola Grahek argues that such patients present a clear counterexample to motivationalism about pain. I argue that Grahek has mischaracterized pain asymbolia. Properly understood, asymbolics have lost a general capacity to care about their bodily integrity. Asymbolics’ indifference to pain thus does not show something about the intrinsic nature of pain; it shows something about the relationship between pains and subjects, and...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2015 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/50265 |
Source: | Mind |
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