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Pains and Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2003

John Hyman
Affiliation:
The Queen's College, Oxford
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Abstract

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I argue that itches, tickles, aches and pains—sensations of all sorts—are generally in the places where we say they are. So, for example, if I say that I have an itch in the big toe on my left foot, then, by and large, that is the very place where the itch is. James denied this in the 1890s; Russell and Broad denied it in the 1920s; Wittgenstein and Ryle denied it in the 1940s; Lewis and Armstrong denied it in the 1960s; and since then various kinds of materialists have denied it. But if itches etc. are states of the sensitive parts of bodies, then it is true.

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Research Article
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© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2003