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

So particularly those guarding motions.

Um so it's not just that so take a cut or something, it's not just that I don't bang the cut on uh on the wall or something, but I also tend to, you know, if I see something come close to it, I'll also, you know, put my hand to protect it and so.

and so on.

And so I wanted something that would capture that broader sense where you may have some positive motions that will also protect the affected area.

So that's why I moved more towards this kind of positive imperative towards to protect.

Although in the majority of cases what it you know, what protection will involve will be largely a lack of use or a lack of motion.

Yeah, right.

So I think um

That is a common view and I think that's also, you know, it's something I hear from ordinary people as well, the idea that what you know, just as visual sensations are there to inform us about the visual world, uh things like pain are there to inform us about facts about our body and what they inform us about is that something's cut or hurt or damaged or disturbed or something like that.

Um so in philosophy this uh is often associated with representationalism, although

Th there are many ways in which a pain might represent damage, so that's a kind of big tent.

Uh I do think that's wrong.

And actually, you know, arguing against that, I should say uh one of the features of the book is my main goal was to present imperativism as an attractive and coherent picture, especially since people often think that it's attractive but not coherent.

Um so something to say sort of uh a lot of it is defense.

And so I don't do

Um, in the book, a ton of the really detailed discussion of other positions other than to explain why mine is better.

So it's a very like it's a polemical book in that sense.

But I do talk a fair bit about representationalism because I think that's probably the going position, at least if you're want to be a naturalist as I do, ultimately about something like pain sensations.

So representationalism, I have a few considerations in the book about this.

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