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Memory and Remembering
This Element surveys research on three central and interrelated issues about the nature of memory and remembering. The first is about the nature of memory as a cognitive faculty. This part discusses different strategies to distinguish memory from other cognitive faculties as well as different proposed taxonomies to differentiate distinct kinds of memory. The second issue concerns what memory does, which is traditionally thought to have a simple remembering. As it turns out, philosophers not only disagree as to how to characterize remembering but also whether the function of memory is indeed to remember. Finally, the third issue is about the nature of what we remember-a question that may refer to the object of our memories but also to their content, with different views disagreeing on how to characterize the relationship between the two.
88 pages, Hardcover
Published December 21, 2023
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Felipe De Brigard
5 booksFelipe De Brigard is an associate professor at Duke University, Department of Philosophy Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
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March 26, 2024
This is a short introduction to some philosophical discussion of the nature and operation of memory and remembering. It begins by summarizing some historical analysis of memory via the verbal locutions around it. The book really gets going with more detailed discussion of scientific theories of memory operation and challenges to some of these proposals in the exact facts around some famous examples of memory pathology. The book makes the case for a philosophical understanding of memory informed by the developing scientific (neurological and psychological) theories of memory based in experiment and empirical observation.
Overall the book is well written. Although the first section on merely verbal analysis of memory seems a bit sterile and abstract the later analysis suggests the force of the empirical work and also some of the insight offered by sticking to philosophical niceties.
I read this as a pdf, the file, text and so on were fine.
Overall the book is well written. Although the first section on merely verbal analysis of memory seems a bit sterile and abstract the later analysis suggests the force of the empirical work and also some of the insight offered by sticking to philosophical niceties.
I read this as a pdf, the file, text and so on were fine.
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