Beyond Analogy: Comparative Research on Pain
March 03–04, 2016
The paradox of pain lies in the tendency to think the pain of others is obvious and indisputable, yet inaccessibly internal. Your pain must be like my pain, but I can never know. This way of thinking about pain makes research in human and non-human animals intractable. The goal of the workshop is to gather philosophers, animal behaviorists, and comparative neuroanatomists to discuss ways to move beyond the argument from analogy to determine objective measures for pain in non-human animals.
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Sascha Benjamin
Fink
Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg
Maria
Fitzgerald
University College London
Mette
Herskin
Mette Herskin Aarhus University
Felicity
Huntingford
University of Glasgow
Giandomenico
Iannetti
University College London
Thomas
Metzinger
Fellow
2008/2009
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Erika
Milam
Princeton University
Kenny
Rutherford
Scotland's Rural College, Edinburgh