Imperativism

The informational profile of valence: The metasemantic argument for imperativism
Some mental states have valence—they are pleasant or unpleasant. According to imperativism, valence depends on imperative content, …
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Imperative Transparency
I respond to an objection recently formulated by Barlassina and Hayward against first-order imperativism about pain, according to which …
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Imperativism and Pain Intensity
Several authors have suggested that degrees of pain are problematic for imperativists about pain. We present a satisfying and …
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Pain Signals are Predominantly Imperative
Recent work on signaling has mostly focused on communication between organisms. The Lewis–Skyrms framework should be equally applicable …
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Pains As Reasons
Imperativism is the view that the phenomenal character of the affective component of pains, orgasms, and pleasant or unpleasant sensory …
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Disgusting Smells and Imperativism
I sketch and defend an imperativist treatment of the phenomenology associated with disgusting smells. This treatment, I argue, allows …
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Imperative Content and the Painfulness of Pain
Representationalist theories of phenomenal consciousness have problems in accounting for pain, for at least two reasons. First of all, …
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