What makes pain unique? : a critique of representationalism about pain in service of perceptualism
| dc.contributor.author | Park, Andrew Erich | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Rysiew, Patrick William | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-02T21:12:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-09-02T21:12:31Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2014 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-09-02 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The goal of this thesis is to defend non-representationalist perceptualism about pain against the challenges brought to it by Murat Aydede. These challenges are intended to apply to both a strong version of representationalism and general perceptualism about pain, however I maintain that they are less effective when aimed at the latter. In the interest of pulling apart these two views, I suggest that a more comprehensive theory of introspection than what is currently being used in the debate should be given. This thesis is an attempt to put forward such a view in service of the perceptual theorist. Once an alternative theory of introspection is given, several of the challenges that target perceptualism are avoided. Additionally I argue that the version of representationalism developed by Michael Tye is undermined by his explanation of pain’s negative affect. Consequently, I claim that one need not endorse representationalist commitments in order to maintain the attractive tenets of perceptualism. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5647 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights.temp | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pain | en_US |
| dc.subject | perception | en_US |
| dc.subject | representationalism | en_US |
| dc.subject | perceptualism | en_US |
| dc.subject | introspection | en_US |
| dc.subject | affect | en_US |
| dc.title | What makes pain unique? : a critique of representationalism about pain in service of perceptualism | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |