New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory

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Kourken Michaelian, Dorothea Debus, Denis Perrin
Routledge, 2018 - Philosophy - 353 pages
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Philosophy of Memory Today and Tomorrow: Editors' Introduction -- Part I Challenges and Alternatives to the Causal Theory of Memory -- 1 Beyond the Causal Theory? Fifty Years After Martin and Deutscher -- 2 A Case for Procedural Causality in Episodic Recollection -- 3 The Functional Character of Memory -- Part II Activity and Passivity in Remembering -- 4 Remembering as a Mental Action -- 5 The Roots of Remembering: Radically Enactive Recollecting -- 6 Handle With Care: Activity, Passivity, and the Epistemological Role of Recollective Memories -- Part III The Affective Dimension of Memory -- 7 Affective Memory: A Little Help From Our Imagination -- 8 Painful Memories -- Part IV Memory in Groups -- 9 Shared Remembering and Distributed Affect: Varieties of Psychological Interdependence -- 10 Memory, Attention, and Joint Reminiscing -- Part V Memory Failures: Concepts and Ethical Implications -- 11 Forgetting -- 12 On the Blameworthiness of Forgetting -- 13 Consent Without Memory -- Part VI The Content and Phenomenology of Episodic and Semantic Memory -- 14 The Remembered: Understanding the Content of Episodic Memory -- 15 The Past Made Present: Mental Time Travel in Episodic Recollection -- 16 Remembering Past Experiences: Episodic Memory, Semantic Memory, and the Epistemic Asymmetry -- 17 On Seeming to Remember -- Contributors -- Index

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