Article ID: CBB031375773

Pain in psychology, biology and medicine: Some implications for pain eliminativism (2020)

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An analysis of arguments for pain eliminativism reveals two significant points of divergence between assumptions underlying biomedical research on pain and assumptions typically endorsed by eliminativist accounts. The first concerns the status of the term ‘pain,’ which is a description of a phenomenon, rather than an explanatory construct. The second concerns reductive explanation: pain is explained causally, in terms of mechanisms or factors that produce or determine it, rather than by identifying it with a physical structure, process or mechanism. These discrepancies undermine several arguments for pain eliminativism.

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Authors & Contributors
Bourke, Joanna
Upshur, Ross
Tai, Sara J.
Daker, Mauricio V.
Varino, Sofia Helena Jorge
Handerer, Fritz
Concepts
Pain
Human body
Philosophy of medicine
Psychology
Philosophy
Patients
Time Periods
19th century
Ancient
20th century
18th century
Early modern
20th century, late
Places
England
United States
Greece
Europe
Wales
France
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