Memory and Technology: 4E Perspectives

Call for papers:

Journal: Review of Philosophy and Psychology

Editors:

  • Richard Heersmink (Tillburg University)
  • Kourken Michaelian (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes)

Recently, the embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive (4E) approaches in philosophy and the cognitive sciences have emerged as popular alternatives to the internalist view on memory. On a 4E view, memory is not a purely internalist cognitive capacity but is embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive. This means that memory systems, processes of remembering, and the contents of memories are scaffolded by and sometimes constituted by the body and environmental structures such as artifacts and technologies. 4E theorists agree that the unit of analysis must be enlarged from studying processes in the brain to studying how memory is embodied and stands in important relations to technological features of the environment. We encourage submissions that address the relation between memory and technology from any of the 4E perspectives, also those that are empirically-informed.

Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Embodied/enactive memory and skilful use of technology
  • Transactive memory systems and technology
  • Metaphysics of embedded and extended memory
  • Artificial intelligence and memory
  • Varieties of memory scaffolding
  • Extended mind and causal theories of memory
  • 4E memory, technology, and cognitive enhancement
  • 4E memory, technology, and (virtue) epistemology
  • 4E memory, technology, and (narrative) identity
  • 4E memory, technology, and neurodiversity
  • 4E memory, technology, and predictive processing

Invited contributors:

  • Dr. David Colaço (Philosophy, LMU Munich)
  • Dr. Jason Finley (Psychology, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
  • Prof. John Sutton (Philosophy, University of Stirling)
  • Dr. Pii Telakivi (Philosophy, University of Helsinki)

Submission instructions: see the journal's website.