We present an ontology of pain and of other pain-related phenomena, building on the definition of pain provided by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). Our strategy is to identify an evolutionarily basic canonical pain phenomenon, involving unpleasant sensory and emotional experience based causally in localized tissue damage that is concordant with that experience. We then show how different variant cases of this canonical pain phenomenon can be distinguished, including pain that is elevated relative to peripheral trauma, pain that is caused neuropathically (thus with no necessary peripheral stimulus), and pain reports arising through deception either of self or of others. We describe how our approach can answer some ...
Pain is often used as the paradigmatic example of a phenomenal kind with a phenomenal quality common...
Introduction: The definition of pain promulgated by the International Association for the Study of P...
the Study of Pain (IASP) publishes since 1986 a relatively frequently updated list of pain terms wit...
We present an ontology of pain and of other pain-related phenomena, building on the definition of pa...
We present an ontology of pain and of other pain-related phenomena, building on the IASP definition ...
Pain features centrally in numerous illnesses and generates enormous public health costs. Despite it...
Pain features centrally in numerous illnesses and generates enormous public health costs. Despite it...
The ordinary conception of pain has two major threads that are in tension with each other. It is thi...
Whether understood as sensation, perception, experience, or image, pain is caught within a conceptua...
Pain is often used as the paradigmatic example of a phenomenal kind with a phenomenal quality common...
Over recent decades pain has received increasing attention as philosophers, psychologists and neuros...
Is a phenomenal pain a conscious primitive or composed of more primitive phenomenal states? Are pain...
The IASP definition of 'pain' defines pain as a subjective experience. The Note accompanying the def...
Pain is often used as the paradigmatic example of a phenomenal kind with a phenomenal quality common...
Introduction: The definition of pain promulgated by the International Association for the Study of P...
the Study of Pain (IASP) publishes since 1986 a relatively frequently updated list of pain terms wit...
We present an ontology of pain and of other pain-related phenomena, building on the definition of pa...
We present an ontology of pain and of other pain-related phenomena, building on the IASP definition ...
Pain features centrally in numerous illnesses and generates enormous public health costs. Despite it...
Pain features centrally in numerous illnesses and generates enormous public health costs. Despite it...
The ordinary conception of pain has two major threads that are in tension with each other. It is thi...
Whether understood as sensation, perception, experience, or image, pain is caught within a conceptua...
Pain is often used as the paradigmatic example of a phenomenal kind with a phenomenal quality common...
Over recent decades pain has received increasing attention as philosophers, psychologists and neuros...
Is a phenomenal pain a conscious primitive or composed of more primitive phenomenal states? Are pain...
The IASP definition of 'pain' defines pain as a subjective experience. The Note accompanying the def...
Pain is often used as the paradigmatic example of a phenomenal kind with a phenomenal quality common...
Introduction: The definition of pain promulgated by the International Association for the Study of P...
the Study of Pain (IASP) publishes since 1986 a relatively frequently updated list of pain terms wit...