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Memory - A Philosophical Study (Hardcover, New)
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Memory - A Philosophical Study (Hardcover, New)
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In this book, Sven Bernecker investigates the defining
characteristics of memory and the issues essential to understanding
it. The book gives a comprehensive philosophical account of memory
and illuminates issues central to contemporary discussions of
metaphysics and epistemology such as personal identity, causation,
mental content, and justification. Bernecker argues that
remembering something, unlike knowing something, does not require
having a belief. There are also instances where one has a memory
but no justification for what one remembers. These surprising
results suggest that remembering something requires standing in an
appropriate causal relation to the relevant past representation.
The book shows that a distinction needs to be made between the
causal dependence of a memory on a past representation and the
causal dependence of a memory on that which retains the past
representation. This distinction turns out to be crucial for
discerning cases of remembering from instances where some content
is learned anew rather than recalled. The book proposes a theory of
memory contents whereby they are determined by relations the
subject bears to his past physical or social environment rather
than by states internal to the subject. This theory is shown to be
compatible with the compelling psychological criterion of personal
identity. Against the background of the theory of memory contents,
Bernecker maintains that a memory content need not be the same as,
but only similar to, the content of the representation from which
it causally derives. This view has interesting results for the
debate over false memories and the theory of self-knowledge.
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