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Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory book cover

1st Edition

Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory

Edited By André Sant'Anna, Christopher Jude McCarroll, Kourken Michaelian Copyright 2022
274 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The surge of philosophical interest in episodic memory has brought to light a number of controversial questions about this form of memory that have only recently begun to be addressed in detail. This book organises discussion around six such questions, offering two new chapters per question, from experts in the field. The questions are: I. What is the relationship between memory and... Read more

Editors’ introduction
André Sant’Anna, Christopher Jude McCarroll, and Kourken Michaelian

Part I: What is the relationship between memory and imagination?

1. Remembering, imagining, and memory traces: Toward a continuist causal theory
Peter Langland-Hassan

2. The relation between memory and imagination: A debate about the right concepts
César Schirmer dos Santos, Christopher Jude McCarroll, and André Sant'Anna

Further Readings for Part I
Study Questions for Part I

Part II: Do memory traces have content?

3. Remembering without a trace? Moving beyond trace minimalism
Daniel D. Hutto

4. Distributed traces and the causal theory of constructive memory
John Sutton and Gerard O'Brien

Further Readings for Part II
Study Questions for Part II

Part III: What is the nature of mnemonic confabulation?

5. An explanationist model of (false) memory
Sven Bernecker

6. Towards a virtue-theoretic account of confabulation
Kourken Michaelian

Further Readings for Part III
Study Questions for Part III

Part IV: What is the function of episodic memory?

7. Episodic memory: And what is it for?
Johannes B. Mahr

8. Episodic memory is not for the future
Sarah K. Robins

Further Readings for Part IV
Study Questions for Part IV

Part V: Do non-human animals have episodic memory?

9. Episodic memory in animals: Optimism, kind scepticism and pluralism
Alexandria Boyle

10. What does it take to remember episodically?
Nazım Keven

Further Readings for Part V
Study Questions for Part V

Part VI: Does episodic memory give us knowledge of the past?

11. The epistemology of episodic memory
Thomas D. Senor

12. You don't know what happened
Matthew Frise

Further Readings for Part VI
Study Questions for Part VI

Index

Biography

André Sant’Anna is a McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at Washington University in St. Louis.

Christopher Jude McCarroll is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.

Kourken Michaelian is Professor of Philosophy at the Université Grenoble Alpes, where he directs the Centre for Philosophy of Memory, and is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

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