ABSTRACT
In popular culture or even among scientists, the term “perception” is often used in a very broad sense to designate any kind of ongoing epistemic access to something in real time. The point, rather, is that perception and introspection are different mental activities even when they co-occur. The act of locating pain in a bodily location argues for an understanding of pains as perceptual, but the robust resistance to identifying pains with anything physical in those locations exerts pressure for an understanding of pains as introspective. The standard perceptualist and representationalist way of making sense of students' and researchers' practices of attributing pains to bodily parts is to reinterpret the logical structure of first-person judgments when one locates a pain in one’s body. One option about what the attributed properties might be is to follow representationalists by identifying them with some sort of physical disturbance.
