New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory

Kourken Michaelian is a senior lecturer at the University of Otago. He is the author of Mental Time Travel: Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past (MIT 2016) and coeditor of Seeing the Future: Theoretical Perspectives on Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel (2016), and The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory (2017). Dorothea Debus teaches philosophy at the University of York. She has written on philosophical questions relating to the phenomena of memory, the imagination, attention, and emotions; her current research project ("Shaping Our Mental Lives") investigates our active involvement with our own mental lives. Denis Perrin is the author of Qu’est-ce que se souvenir? (2012), the editor of a special issue "Episodic memory" of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2014), and the author of several papers on episodic memory and mental time travel.

The philosophy of memory today and tomorrow: Editors' introduction

Kourken Michaelian, Dorothea Debus, and Denis Perrin

Part I: Challenges and alternatives to the causal theory of memory

1 Beyond the causal theory? Fifty years after Martin and Deutscher

Kourken Michaelian and Sarah K. Robins

2 A case for procedural causality in episodic recollection

Denis Perrin

3 The functional character of memory

Jordi Fernández

Part II: Activity and passivity in remembering

4 Remembering as a mental action

Santiago Arango-Muñoz and Juan Pablo Bermúdez

5 The roots of remembering: Radically enactive recollecting

Daniel D. Hutto and Anco Peeters

6 Handle with care: Activity, passivity, and the epistemological role of recollective memories

Dorothea Debus

Part III: The affective dimension of memory

7 Affective memory: A little help from our imagination

Margherita Arcangeli and Jérôme Dokic

8 Painful memories

Philip Gerrans

Part IV: Memory in groups

9 Shared remembering and distributed affect: Varieties of psychological interdependence

John Sutton

10 Memory, attention, and joint reminiscing

Felipe De Brigard

Part V: Memory failures: Concepts and ethical implications

11 Forgetting

Matthew Frise

12 On the blameworthiness of forgetting

Sven Bernecker

13 Consent without memory

Carl F. Craver and R. Shayna Rosenbaum

Part VI: The content and phenomenology of episodic and semantic memory

14 The remembered: Understanding the content of episodic memory

Mark Rowlands

15 The past made present: Mental time travel in episodic recollection

Matthew Soteriou

16 Remembering past experiences: Episodic memory, semantic memory, and the epistemic asymmetry

Christoph Hoerl

17 On seeming to remember

Fabrice Teroni