id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2593 Pain (philosophy) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1154 149 60 Find sources: "Pain" philosophy – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Discussions in philosophy of mind concerning qualia has given rise to a body of knowledge called philosophy of pain,[1] which is about pain in the narrow sense of physical pain, and which must be distinguished from philosophical works concerning pain in the broad sense of suffering. Historical views of pain[edit] From the centrality of one's own consciousness springs a fundamental problem of other minds, the discussion of which has often centered on pain. Pain and meaning[edit] Pain and theories of mind[edit] The experience of pain has been used by various philosophers to analyze various types of philosophy of mind, such as dualism, identity theory, or functionalism. Both of these phenomena, Lewis claims, are pain, and must be accounted for in any coherent theory of mind. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2593.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2593.txt