Abstract
I defend pain eliminativism against three recent challenges for its adequacy as a prediction of and a prescription for the fate of folk psychology in the face of mature neuroscience. While some challenges consist in showing that folk psychology is thriving in coexistence with advanced pain neuroscience, others claim that the term ‘pain’ has its utility for everyday purposes and thus should not be eliminated from commonsense vocabulary. I will show how the success of interventions for the treatment of chronic pain based on neuroscience education of chronic pain sufferers proves pain eliminiativism successful both descriptively and prescriptively.
