Mental time travel : episodic memory and our knowledge of the personal past /

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"In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of memory to develop an innovative philosophical account of the nature of remembering and memory knowledge.\sCurrent philosophical approaches to memory rest on assumptions that are incompatible with the rich body of theory a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Michaelian, Kourken (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
Series:Life and mind.
Subjects:
Memory (Philosophy)
Episodic memory.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Mémoire (Philosophie)
Théorie de la connaissance.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
PHILOSOPHY/General
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Epistemology and human memory
  • Three questions about memory
  • Situating episodic memory
  • Memory knowledge
  • Episodic memory as mental time travel
  • The commonsense conception
  • The causal theory
  • The simulation theory
  • Mental time travel as a source of knowledge
  • The information effect
  • Metamemory and the source problem
  • Metamemory and the process problem
  • The evolution of mental time travel
  • The puzzle of conscious episodic memory
  • Consciousness and memory knowledge
  • Conclusion.

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