Colin Klein

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New Books in Philosophy · Colin Klein, “What the Body Commands: The Imperative Theory of Pain” (MIT Press, 2015) · 15 Jan 2016 podcast

I am.

Hi, Gary.

Hey, thanks for uh and delighted to be here.

Sure.

So uh how I got to philosophy?

I've always been interested in the mind.

Uh I think the mind is still the the last great mystery to be solved.

Uh when I was an undergraduate I was at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania and I had a great opportunity where I majored both in philosophy and in a interdisciplinary program they had called Scientific and Philosophical Studies of Mind.

Uh and that let me do both a lot of philosophy and also empirically oriented work.

Uh as for pan.

Uh when I was about thirteen I broke my ankle very badly in wrestling practice.

And so that's also given me a lot of good examples over the years and that's why the book focuses so much on ankle pain.

Uh but when I was in the hospital they gave me morphine and I had an experience which turns out to be quite common where uh I was laying there, my ankle, as far as I could tell, still hurt, but I didn't care about it anymore.

I was as I sort of discovered I was up here, it was down there, uh I didn't know what one had to do with the other.

And I didn't think about that much until I had a philosophy class and Daniel Dennett actually talks about this in I believe why comput why you can't make a computer that feels pain.

And so I talked to my philosophy advisor at the time, Bennett Helm, who had also written a lot on pain, and that's kind of how the intro started and I've just been sort of thinking about it and writing about it ever since.

Yeah, sure.

So just as sort of more general background to start off with, uh the picture in the book, the sort of main claim, imperativism, is the idea that pains have a content, but that content is something like a command rather than say a representation of the world.

So the pain of a sprained ankle says something like don't put weight on this ankle.

Um so that's what I'm trying to defend in the book.

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