Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory

A. Sant'Anna, C. J. McCarroll, and K. Michaelian, eds. 2023. Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory. Routledge. [publisher's site]

Contents:

    • Editors' introduction
  • 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.
  • Part II: Do memory traces have content?
    • 3 Remembering without a trace? Moving beyond trace minimalism. Daniel Hutto.
    • 4 Distributed traces and the causal theory of constructive memory. John Sutton & Gerard O'Brien.
  • 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.
  • Part IV: What is the function of episodic memory?
    • 7 Episodic memory: And what is it for? Johannes Mahr.
    • 8 Episodic memory is not for the future. Sarah K. Robins.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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