ABSTRACT
The history of sensation and reward, the history of the relation between sensation and reward, is long and complex, sometimes to the point of being tortuous, with intertwined roots that begin in antiquity (see Figure 2.1 for some of the key individuals who embellish this history). The history of sensation
2.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 15 2.2 Empiricism and Hedonism .....................................................................................................20 2.3 Sensation and Pleasure in Greek Philosophy ......................................................................... 21
2.3.1 Pleasures: Commensurable or Incommensurable? ..................................................... 21 2.3.2 Sensory Pleasures: Conditional and Unconditional ....................................................22
