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Miscellaneous philosophy of mind :: Aspects of mind :: Memory

• J. Campbell (1997). The structure of time in autobiographical memory.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: Much of ordinary memory is autobiographical; memory of what one saw and did, where and when. It may derive from your own past experiences, or from what other people told you about your past life. It may be phenomenologically rich, redolent of that autumn afternoon so long ago, or a few austere reports of what happened. But all autobiographical memory is first-person memory, stateable using ‘I’. It is a memory you would express by saying, ‘I remember I . . .’
  Additional links for this entry:
  http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~jcampbel/documents/Memory.pdf
  http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~jcampbel/documents/Memory.pdf
  http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-0378.00031
  http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1468-0378.00031
  http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/ejop/1997/00000005/00000002/art00031
  http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/ejop/1997/00000005/00000002/art00001
  
• Jérôme Dokic (2001). Is memory purely preservative?   (More)
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  http://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/documents/disk0/00/00/01/36/ijn_00000136_00/ijn_00000136_00.PDF
  http://hal.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/00/05/32/92/PDF/ijn_00000136_00.PDF
  http://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/00/05/32/92/PDF/ijn_00000136_00.PDF
  
• Jordi Fernandez (online). Memory, past and self.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: An important pre-theoretic intuition about memory is that memories are _about_ some things. Memories have content, in the minimal sense that a subject represents the world as having been in a certain way in virtue of remembering something. The purpose of this essay is to determine how we should construe the content of memories. What kind of entities do memories put us in cognitive contact with? Are those entities mental events? Are they events in the world?
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  http://www.springerlink.com/index/88873857245700k5.pdf
  http://www.springerlink.com/content/88873857245700k5/fulltext.pdf
  
• Jordi Fernandez (2006). The intentionality of memory.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to determine how we should construe the content of memories or, in other words, to determine what the intentional objects of memory are.1 The issue that will concern us is, then, analogous to the traditional philosophical question of whether perception directly puts us in cognitive contact with entities in the world or with entities in our own minds. As we shall see, there are some interesting aspects of the phenomenology and the epistemology of memory, and I shall aim at a specification of the content of memories that is in accordance with those aspects of them
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  http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/N808R23665751464.pdf
  http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/./ftinterface~content=a743879521~fulltext=713240930
  http://www.informaworld.com/index/N808R23665751464.pdf
  
• Andy Hamilton (1998). False memory syndrome and the authority of personal memory-claims: A philosophical perspective.   (More)
• E. J. Lowe (1998). Commentary on false memory syndrome and the authority of personal memory-claims.   (More)
• David Owens (1996). A Lockean theory of memory experience.   (More)
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  http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/archive/00001209/01/owensdj1.htm
  http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8205(199606)56:2<319:ALTOME>2.0.CO;2-D
  http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8205(199606)56:2<319:ALTOME>2.0.CO;2-D
  http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2108522.pdf
  
• David Owens (1999). The authority of memory.   (More)
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  http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1468-0378.00091
  http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-0378.00091
  http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/ejop/1999/00000007/00000003/art00091
  http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/ejop/1999/00000007/00000003/art00002
  
• Stephen Robbins (2006). On the Possibility of Direct Memory.   (More)
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  http://www.stephenerobbins.com/Articles/Nova-Direct Memory-3.pdf
  http://eprints.assc.caltech.edu/346/
  
• John Sutton (2000). Author's response to reviews by Catherine Wilson, Michael mascuch, and Theo Meyering.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: Historical Cognitive Science I am lucky to strike three reviewers who extract so clearly my book's spirit as well as its substance. They all both accept and act on my central methodological assumption; that detailed historical research, and consideration of difficult contemporary questions about cognition and culture, can be mutually illuminating. It's gratifying to find many themes which recur in different contexts throughout _Philosophy and Memory_ _Traces_ so well articulated here. The reviews catch my desires to interweave discussion of cognitive theories of memory with moral questions of psychological control and self-mastery, to evoke the virtues and the pleasures of strange, baroque beliefs about fickle 'animal spirits' coursing through the nerves and the brain, to demonstrate that mechanistic explanation (even in its blunt old Cartesian form) can acknowledge complexity, and to develop scientific conceptions of dynamic memory traces and representations which can survive uncharitable philosophical criticism. The book's insistent interdisciplinarity is just an inchoate quest to acknowledge the daunting variety of the phenomena: remembering is both natural and cultural, and is studied by narrative theorists as well as neurobiologists, by physicists as well as psychologists. By fusing the rangy detail of a history of early modern neurophysiology with the committed, even gullible fervor of a defence of 'new connectionist' cognitive science, I wanted to pull out the carpet from all those who are happy to let 'scientific' and 'cultural' approaches to the mind run along independently. Once this general project is given space, as it is by all three reviewers, we can get down to specifics
• John Sutton (2002). Cognitive conceptions of language and the development of autobiographical memory.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: The early development of autobiographical memory is a useful case study both for examining general relations between language and memory, and for investigating the promise and the difficulty of interdisciplinary research in the cognitive sciences of memory. An otherwise promising social-interactionist view of autobiographical memory development relies in part on an overly linguistic conception of mental representation. This paper applies an alternative, ‘supra-communicative’ view of the relation between language and thought, along the lines developed by Andy Clark, to this developmental framework. A pluralist approach to current theories of autobiographical memory development is sketched: shared early narratives about the past function in part to stabilize and structure the child’s own autobiographical memory system
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  http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/CognitiveConceptionsofLanguage.htm
  http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/02715309/2002/00000022/00000003/art00013
  
• John Sutton (2003). Constructive memory and distributed cognition: Towards an interdisciplinary framework.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: Memory is studied at a bewildering number of levels, with a vast array of methods, and in a daunting range of disciplines and subdisciplines. Is there any sense in which these various memory theorists – from neurobiologists to narrative psychologists, from the computational to the cross-cultural – are studying the same phenomena? In this exploratory position paper, I sketch the bare outline of a positive framework for understanding current work on constructive remembering, both within the various cognitive sciences, and across gulfs between the cognitive and the social sciences. I pinpoint some lines of psychological theory and research which offer promising and compatible ways of thinking about individual memory and shared or social memory simultaneously. These are obviously ambitious projects, and this paper seeks more to elicit help with forging these connections than to present firm results. The aim is to draw out some consequences of empirical work on social memory and in developmental psychology
• John Sutton (1999). Distributed memory, coupling, and history.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: A case study in historical cognitive science, this paper addresses two claims made by radical proponents of new dynamical approaches. It queries their historical narrative, which sees embodied, situated cognition as correcting an individualist, atemporal framework originating in Descartes. In fact, new Descartes scholarship shows that 17th-century animal spirits neurophysiology realized a recognizably distributed model of memory; explicit representations are patterns of spirit flow, and memory traces are changes left by experience in connections between brain pores. This historical sketch supports the second dynamicist claim, that connectionists' stress on the cognitive importance of pattern-recreation needs supplementing by dynamicists' real-time focus and attention to the active roles of body and environment. Animal spirits theory exhibits just the 'continuous reciprocal causation' between brain, body, and environment which Andy Clark sees as dynamicism's central contribution, and allows for the embedding of brains in culture as well as the physical world
• John Sutton (2007). Integrating the philosophy and psychology of memory: Two case studies.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: in Massimo Marraffa, Mario de Caro, & Francesco Ferretti (eds.), Cartographies of the Mind: philosophy & psychology in intersection (Springer), pp. 81-92
  Additional links for this entry:
  http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/Cartographies_Sutton_memory.doc
  
• John Sutton (2005). Language, memory, and concepts of memory: Semantic diversity and scientific psychology.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: There are many different ways to think about what has happened before. I think about my own recent actions, and about what happened to me a long time ago; I can think about times before I lived, and about what will happen after my death. I know many things about the past, and about what has happened because people did things before now, or because some good or bad things happened to me
• John Sutton (online). Memory.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: Remembering is one of the most characteristic and most puzzling of human activities. Personal memory, in particular - the ability mentally to travel back into the past, as leading psychologist Endel Tulving puts it - often has intense emotional or moral significance: it is perhaps the most striking manifestation of the peculiar way human beings are embedded in time, and of our limited but genuine freedom from our present environment and our immediate needs. Memory has been significant in the history of philosophy as much in relation to ethics and to epistemology as in theories of psyche, mind, and self
  Additional links for this entry:
  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/memory/
  
• John Sutton (1998). Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to Connectionism.   (More)
  Additional links for this entry:
  http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=YszTNjupfS4C&oi=fnd&pg=RA1-PA1&sig=ADVyNjpS0KVZIVy2jFppN6iVc_g
  http://www3.cambridge.org/asia/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521591942
  http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00001362/
  http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=YszTNjupfS4C&oi=fnd&pg=PP19&ots=o1fVb8Hj2x&sig=eIJe2z6jcU1Iuz2_yks2p4hsZNE
  http://cogprints.org/1362/
  http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/citations?archiveID=oai:cogprints.soton.ac.uk:1362
  http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/PhilosophyandMemoryTraces.htm
  http://www3.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521591942
  http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=YszTNjupfS4C&oi=fnd&pg=PP19&ots=o1gSccCk8x&sig=ssqPWuLmlvHZo_9v6c7_kUu8lLw
  
• John Sutton (2002). Porous memory and the cognitive life of things.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: Published in Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, and Alessio Cavallaro (eds), _Prefiguring Cyberculture: an intellectual history_ (MIT Press and Power Publications, December 2002). Please do send comments: email me. Back to my main publications page . Back to my home page
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  http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/cognitivelifeofthings.htm
  
• John Sutton (2004). Representation, reduction, and interdisciplinarity in the sciences of memory.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: 1. Introduction: memory and interdisciplinarity (footnote 1) Memory is studied at a bewildering number of levels, in a daunting range of disciplines, and with a vast array of methods. Is there any sense at all in which memory theorists - from neurobiologists to narrative theorists, from the developmental to the postcolonial, from the computational to the cross-cultural - are studying the same phenomena? This exploratory review paper sketches the bare outline of a positive framework for understanding current work on memory, both within the various cognitive sciences and across the gulfs between the cognitive and the social sciences
  Additional links for this entry:
  http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/Sutton_representation_memory.html
  

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