Four major puzzles of consciousness philosophical materialism must confront after rejecting
the phenomenal concept strategy. We are material beings in a material world, but we are …

A novel theory of pain, according to which pains are imperatives—commands issued by the
body, ordering you to protect the injured part. In What the Body Commands, Colin Klein …

Valence is a central component of all affective states, including pains, pleasures, emotions,
moods, and feelings of desire or repulsion. This paper has two main goals. One is to suggest …

When you look at the red mug on the desk in front of you, you have an experience with a
distinctive phenomenal character. In virtue of what does your experience have this …

Representationalist theories of phenomenal consciousness have problems in accounting for
pain, for at least two reasons. First of all, the negative affective phenomenology of pain (its …

''Living in a material world, and I am a material girl.''So sang Madonna. She was right. We do
live in a material world, and she is a material girl. We are all material beings. But we are also …

A popular idea at present is that emotions are perceptions of values. Most defenders of this
idea have interpreted it as the perceptual thesis that emotions present (rather than merely …

Moods are sometimes claimed to constitute an exception to the rule that mental phenomena
are intentional (in the sense of representing something). In reaction, some philosophers …

Evaluativism is best thought of as a way of enriching a perceptual view of pain to account for
pain's unpleasantness or painfulness. Once it was common for philosophers to contrast …

ccording to the increasingly popular perceptual/representatio accounts of pain (and other
bodily sensations such as itch JL JL tickles, orgasms, and so on), feeling pain in a body reg …