 Pain raises many challenges for philosophers (see Pain entry), and the variety of painful experiences makes the problems even more complex (Corns 2014). From a physiological level, we have nociceptors on the skin that respond to dangerously intense mechanical stimuli, to mechanothermal stimuli or to thermal and chemical stimuli. According to the dominant theory, noxious signals are inhibited, enhanced or distorted by various factors via a gating mechanism at the level of the spinal cord that controls the amount of signals from the periphery to brain structures and via a central gating mechanism (Melzack &amp; Wall 1983). A major issue is to account for both the sensory component of pain, which represents the felt location and intensity of the sensation, and for the affective component, its unpleasantness, which motivates protective behaviors. To do so, recent representationalist theories propose that pain has evaluative content (Bain 2013) or imperative content (Klein 2015; Martinez 2011; Hall 2008).