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

Um, painfulness might motivate me, for example, to take an ibuprofen or to take some morphine, or um, you know, I've heard uh get a cortisone shot or something.

And in some cases though can actually be bad.

This can work at cross purposes, right?

So if I get a shot of morphine, I might be more likely to walk on the ankle because you know I don't feel anything anymore.

Um cortisone shots I've heard can be sort of bad in the long run because although they reduce the inflammation, they don't there's something about the kind of damage to the underlying stuff.

Um so in any case, you get these two kinds of motivations that are, you know, although they can

coincide in many cases, there are enough of cross purposes that I think it's worth separating them out.

Yeah, so let me see I took there are two things there.

Let me see if I can address everything.

So on the first one, I mean, you know, again I yeah, I appeal to RM Harris' discussion of this about ambiguity, but you're right, and this is the sort of problem that or you know, the sort of fight you can have in philosophy where you say, look, you say it's ambiguous, I say you're just ducking the question.

Um so I mean there are a few th you know, I do address this more in the book and there are a few things.

Um one is I really think

You know, this story about pain that links it up with the other homeostatic sensations is for me one of the attractive bits of it.

So that um 'cause it does seem to me that biologically speaking, pain really does have this important role that links it up with hunger and thirst and so on.

And it's not it's not just the sort of phenomenology of it.

There's a lot of good anatomical evidence.

So one of the people I talked about some of the book, uh the sort of current pain scientist A.

Craig has done a lot of nice work on this.

Um so I think that that you know, that's an independent reason to like it.

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