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      Philosophy of Suffering book

      Metaphysics, Value, and Normativity

      Philosophy of Suffering

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      Philosophy of Suffering book

      Metaphysics, Value, and Normativity
      Edited ByDavid Bain, Michael Brady, Jennifer Corns
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 17 October 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351115469
      Pages 330
      eBook ISBN 9781351115469
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Humanities, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health
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      Bain, D., Brady, M., & Corns, J. (Eds.). (2019). Philosophy of Suffering: Metaphysics, Value, and Normativity (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351115469

      ABSTRACT

      Suffering is a central component of our lives. We suffer pain. We fall ill. We fail and are failed. Our loved ones die. It is a commonplace to think that suffering is, always and everywhere, bad. But might suffering also be good? If so, in what ways might suffering have positive, as well as negative, value?

      This important volume examines these questions and is the first comprehensive examination of suffering from a philosophical perspective. An outstanding roster of international contributors explore the nature of suffering, pain, and valence, as well as the value of suffering and the relationships between suffering, morality, and rationality.

      Philosophy of Suffering: Metaphysics, Value, and Normativity is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, cognitive and behavioral psychology as well as those in health and medicine researching conceptual issues regarding suffering and pain.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |16 pages

      Introduction

      ByDavid Bain, Michael Brady, Jennifer Corns

      part I|2 pages

      The nature of suffering

      chapter 1|18 pages

      The world according to suffering

      ByAntti Kauppinen

      chapter 2|18 pages

      The disruption model of suffering

      ByTom McClelland

      chapter 3|20 pages

      Painfulness, suffering, and consciousness

      BySam Coleman

      chapter 4|27 pages

      Suffering pains

      ByOlivier Massin

      part II|2 pages

      Pain and valence

      chapter 5|20 pages

      Valence, bodily (dis)pleasure, and emotion

      ByFabrice Teroni

      chapter 6|22 pages

      Pain and mere tastes

      Toward an attitudinal-representational theory of valenced perceptual experiences
      ByHilla Jacobson

      chapter 7|18 pages

      Pain

      An attitude with two heads
      ByHagit Benbaji

      part III|2 pages

      The value of suffering

      chapter 8|15 pages

      Suffering as transformative experience

      ByHavi Carel, Ian James Kidd

      chapter 9|14 pages

      After motivational hedonism

      Feeling bad can be good | feeling good can be bad
      ByColin Wayne Leach

      chapter 10|17 pages

      From suffering to satisfaction

      Why we need pain to feel pleasure
      ByBrock Bastian

      chapter 11|16 pages

      ‘My horses and hogs and even everybody seemed changed’

      Appreciating beauty in depression recovery
      ByTasia Scrutton

      part IV|2 pages

      The normativity of suffering

      chapter 12|22 pages

      Hedonic rationality

      ByJennifer Corns

      chapter 13|27 pages

      The agony of reason

      The unsteady bond between suffering and human rationality
      ByMatthew Fulkerson, Jonathan Cohen

      chapter 14|18 pages

      Some paradoxes of pain for rational agency

      ByMarilyn McCord Adams

      chapter 15|15 pages

      Suffering as a virtue

      ByMichael Brady
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