Causation in Memory
(Université Grenoble Alpes)

Schedule:

21 July 2023

  • 9:15-9:30. Welcome.
  • 9:30-10:30. Title TBA. John Campbell (University of California, Berkeley).
  • 10:30-11:00. Coffee break.
  • 11:00-12:00. Memory shifts and reappraisals: Uncovering causation. Sara Aronowitz (University of Toronto).
  • 12:00-13:30. Lunch.
  • 13:30-14:30. Causal memory traces? Insights from modeling and experiments. Sen Cheng (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).
  • 14:30-15:30. Varieties of memory, varieties of reconstruction, varieties of memory trace. Simon Brown (Johns Hopkins University).
  • 15:30-16:00. Coffee Break.
  • 16:00-17:00. Martin and Deutscher's causal theory: Insights and oversights. Sarah Robins (University of Kansas).
  • 19:00. Dinner.

22 July 2023

  • 9:30-10:30. The role of causation in framing mnemonic content. Jordi Fernandez (University of Adelaide).
  • 10:30-11:00. Coffee break.
  • 11:00-12:00. Causation in memory: What, how, and why?. Nikola Andonovski (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes)
  • 12:00-13:30. Lunch.
  • 13:30-14:30. The Reichenbach argument for causalism: Objections and replies. Markus Werning (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).
  • 14:30-15:30. The causal specificity of memory traces. Jonathan Najenson (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology).
  • 15:30-16:00. Coffee break.
  • 16:00-17:00. Episodic Simulation: Causal links between past and future. Donna Rose Addis (University of Toronto).

Organizers: Nikola Andonovski (CPM, Université Grenoble Alpes), Kourken Michaelian (CPM, Université Grenoble Alpes), Juan F. Álvarez (CPM, Université Grenoble Alpes), José Carlos Camillo (CPM, Université Grenoble Alpes/Universidade Federal de Goiás).