The notorious neurophilosophy of pain
- Pain continues to be one of the most controversial subjects in neurophilosophy. One focus of current debates is the apparent absence of an ideal brain-based biomarker that could function as a coherent and distinct indicator for pain. One prominent reaction to this in the philosophical literature is scientific pain eliminativism. In this article, I argue for a non-eliminative alternative that builds on family resemblances and provides a useful heuristic in the tradeoff between the idiosyncrasy of the neural processes corresponding to different pain cases and the demand for generalizability in pain research.
| Author: | Sabrina ConinxORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-89786 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12378 |
| Parent Title (English): | Mind & language |
| Subtitle (English): | A family resemblance approach to idiosyncrasy and generalizability |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Place of publication: | Hoboken, New Jersey |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/05/24 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/10/05 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | biomarker; family resemblance; idiosyncrasy; neuromarker; pain marker; scientific pain eliminativism |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 20 |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Institut für Philosophie II |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Philosophie und Psychologie / Philosophie |
| open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
