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

There are a few other people who like some imperative content, so Richard Hall and Manila Martinez have both defended this, but also have some kind of sensory or indicative content.

So you have a kind of hybrid content.

Uh and in some ways that's much easier because you can say all of the things that the representationalists say.

Um so you know, you can locate pain where the damage is or whatever.

Uh imperatives are much harder.

Uh so what I do when I kind of spell out the details of the content and this goes over you know, uh this is all very quick 'cause this goes over a few chapters, uh, is talk about things like uh so I want the schema to have at least three slots that can vary to account for the three kinds of variation that I see in pain.

So where your pain is, how it feels, whether it's a sort of throbbing pain or a stabbing pain or

a stinging pain, uh and the intensity of the pain.

So intensity actually hasn't been talked about a lot.

Uh I rely on that uh with uh rely on work that I've done there with my collaborator Manola Martinez uh about trying to link that up to sort of variations in urgency of ordinary language imperatives.

Because although, you know, I said before, you know, it's important that these aren't the same thing that's expressed by ordinary language imperatives.

imperatives.

But that said, I think one of the exciting things about imperativism for me is that there is a lot of work in linguistics and philosophy uh on the properties of imperatives.

And by focusing on that so it's more than just an analogy, by focusing on some of these uh properties of commands expressed by imperatives, you can find a lot of interest you you can shed light on a lot of interesting things about pain.

So, you know, we uh rely on that work for intensity.

I talk about how the location varies with the uh body part that needs to be protected.

And then the sort of qualities of pain, so things like um burning, stabbing and so on.

Uh what I argue in the book is that that should correspond to variations in what you ought to do uh with respect to that body part.

Uh so sometimes, you know.

Sometimes people have this intuition like, well, a stabbing pain or a burning pain represents the kind of thing that would happen when you get burned.

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