Heyman Center Workshops
Neuroscience and History: The Science of Pain and Pleasure: What Can We Learn from its History?
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Hedonistic psychology – the attribution of human motivation to aversion to pain and attraction to pleasure – has a long history, stretching from Thomas Hobbes to B. F. Skinner, and beyond. Starting from contemporary investigations of the psychology of appetite, addiction, and reward, this talk will ask what we might learn from the history of the science of pain and pleasure.