xiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm.

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1.Puzzles about Pain -- 1.1.Imperativism -- 1.2.Reflections on Imperatives -- 1.3.Two Background Commitments -- 1.4.The Plan of the Book -- 2.Homeostatic Sensations and Imperative Content -- 2.1.Behavioral Homeostasis -- 2.2.Features of Homeostatic Sensations -- 2.3.Homeostatic Sensations as Imperat...

5.The General Content of Pains -- 5.1.The Content of Pain -- 5.2.Imperative Content -- 5.2.1.Some Basic Ideas -- 5.2.2.Further Details -- 5.2.3.The Content of Protection Imperatives -- 5.3.Imperatives and Ranking Worlds -- 5.4.Protection Imperatives -- 5.4.1.Stop Imperatives -- 5.4.2.Proscription Im...

8.1.Imperative Intensity -- 8.2.Intensity -- 8.2.1.Clarifying the View -- 8.2.2.Ordinal Comparisons of Imperatives -- 8.2.3.Advantages of the Account -- 8.3.An Ordinal Account of Pains -- 8.4.Conclusion -- 9.Objections, Replies, and Elaborations -- 9.1.Introduction -- 9.2.Objections from Odd Cases -...

11.2.Pain Asymbolia -- 11.3.Two Models of Asymbolia -- 11.3.1.The Degraded Input Model -- 11.3.2.The Lost Capacity Model -- 11.3.3.Evidence for a Lost Capacity -- 11.4.Conclusion -- 12.Asymbolia, Motivation, and the Self -- 12.1.Three Kinds of Motivationalism -- 12.2.Motivation and Command -- 12.3.A...

14.2.3.Second-Order Imperativism -- 14.3.Some Reasons Why Pains Hurt -- 14.3.1.Hating the Messenger -- 14.3.2.Pain and Frustrated Plans -- 14.3.3.The Dual Nature of Pain -- 14.4.Pain, Fragility, and Mortality.