Open AccessL’ESPERIENZA DEL DOLORE TRA FILOSOFIA E NEUROSCIENZE
Author(s) -
Luca Vanzago
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
rendiconti. classe di lettere e scienze morali e storiche
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2384-9150
pISSN - 1124-1667
DOI - 10.4081/lettere.2021.777
Subject(s) - reductionism , philosophy , epistemology , perspective (graphical) , grasp , representation (politics) , relation (database) , order (exchange) , humanities , computer science , artificial intelligence , finance , database , politics , political science , law , economics , programming language
In this essay I propose to analyze two fundamental positions that have recently emerged in the philosophical debate in relation to the experience of pain: the reductionist one peculiar to the neurocognitive area, and the phenomenological one. The comparison is conducted in the light of the notion of representation, in order to show that the reductionist perspective fails to give a satisfactory account of the properly experiential aspect of pain, which instead the phenomenological approach is able to grasp more adequately.