New post by André Sant'Anna, introducing us to the beautiful Conference "Issues in Philosophy of Memory 4" now happening in Geneva! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
André Sant’Anna, University of Geneva
What does it take to learn from our personal past? How does this type of learning differ from learning from others' testimony? Today at the Memory Palace, Dorothea Debus explores these and many other questions. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
Dorothea Debus (University of Konstanz)
"Memory gets your past experience right but the past world wrong. But what if memory corrects an error?". Today, Matthew Frise writes about this question and many others, exploring some core topics in the epistemology of memory. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
Matthew Frise (Milwaukee School of Engineering)
Can remembering our past from the outside help us understand others? Today at the Memory Palace, Ying-Tung Lin writes about observer memory and mind-reading, arguing that episodic memory sometimes works as a powerful inner social lab. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
Can we ever go back to ways of thinking and believing we had in the past? If yes, how so? Today at the Memory Palace, Sara Aronowitz explores these questions and presents her new project on reversals and disillusion in learning. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Sara Aronowitz (University of Toronto)
Why do we share our memories of the past? Today at The Memory Palace, Nazim Keven argues that we do so to assess other people's past behavior, to choose who to collaborate with, to create and maintain social relationships, and much more. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
Nazim Keven (Bilkent University)
Today, artist Becky Moon talks about what it is like to do philosophy of memory through art, how reading research on memory has changed her way of doing art, how she has worked on her painting for the Memory Palace, and much more. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
Today at the Memory Palace, David Colaço and Jonathan Najeson talk about the International Memory Reading Group they run. They explain how they came up with the idea, what they are up to now, and more. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
David Colaço (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy) & Jonathan Najeson (Israel Institute of Technology/The Open University of Israel)
Should we hold memory and perception to the same standards? In today’s post, Rebecca Copenhaver (WashU) argues that we shouldn’t. And she proposes a new model of memory accuracy based on representational change and success. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
Rebecca Copenhaver - Washington University in St. Louis
Might specialization – as ideal and as practice – be in tension with the urge to continue to expand the philosophy of memory? Today at the Memory Palace: John Sutton (Stirling/Macquarie) on the tension between specialization and interdisciplinary. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...