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almafu_9959228346602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (313 p.)
ISBN:
0-262-33458-5
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0-262-33457-7
Serie:
Life and mind : philosophical issues in biology and psychology
Inhalt:
"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 and data coming from psychology.\sMichaelian argues that abandoning those assumptions will result in a radically new philosophical understanding of memory.\sHis novel, integrated account of episodic memory, memory knowledge, and their evolution makes a significant step in that direction.\s Michaelian situates episodic memory as a form of mental time travel and outlines a naturalistic framework for understanding it.\sDrawing on research in constructive memory, he develops an innovative simulation theory of memory; finding no intrinsic difference between remembering and imagining, he argues that to remember is to imagine the past.\sHe investigates the reliability of simulational memory, focusing on the adaptivity of the constructive processes involved in remembering and the role of metacognitive monitoring; and he outlines an account of the evolution of episodic memory, distinguishing it from the forms of episodic-like memory demonstrated in animals.\s Memory research has become increasingly interdisciplinary.\sMichaelian's account, built systematically on the findings of empirical research, not only draws out the implications of these findings for philosophical theories of remembering but also offers psychologists a framework for making sense of provocative experimental results on mental time travel"--MIT CogNet.
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I Epistemology and Human Memory; 1 Three Questions about Memory; 1.1 What Is Memory?; 1.2 How Does Memory Give Us Knowledge?; 1.3 When and Why Did Memory Emerge?; 1.4 Overview; 2 Situating Episodic Memory; 2.1 Is Memory a Natural Kind?; 2.2 The Multiple Memory Systems Hypothesis; 2.3 A Standard Taxonomy of Memory Systems; 2.4 The Trilevel Approach; 2.5 Declarative Memory; 2.6 Nondeclarative Memory; 2.7 Toward a New Taxonomy; 2.8 Starting with Episodic Memory; 3 Memory Knowledge; 3.1 Naturalism and Reliabilism; 3.2 The Reliability of Episodic Memory
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II Episodic Memory as Mental Time Travel4 The Commonsense Conception; 4.1 The Experience Condition; 4.2 The Current Representation Condition; 4.3 The Previous Representation Condition; 4.4 The Appropriate Connection Condition; 4.5 The Content-Matching Condition; 4.6 The Factivity Condition; 4.7 Distinguishing between Memory and Imagination; 5 The Causal Theory; 5.1 The Causal Condition; 5.2 The Memory Trace Condition; 5.3 The Continuous Connection Condition; 5.4 Properly Functioning Memory Systems; 5.5 Content Similarity; 5.6 Constructive Memory; 5.7 Approximate Content Similarity
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5.8 A Causal Theory of Constructive Memory5.9 The Epistemology of Constructive Memory; 6 The Simulation Theory; 6.1 The Changing Concept of Episodic Memory; 6.2 Remembering as Mental Time Travel; 6.3 Remembering as Simulating the Past; 6.4 The Episodic Construction System; 6.5 The Personal Past; 6.6 Remembering and Merely Imagining the Past; 6.7 Beyond the Causal Theory; 6.8 Related Approaches; 6.9 Objections to the Simulation Theory; 6.10 Remembering as Imagining the Past; III Mental Time Travel as a Source of Knowledge; 7 The Information Effect; 7.1 The Misinformation Effect
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7.2 Helpful Incorporation7.3 Explaining the Appeal of the Contamination View; 7.4 Skeptical Implications of the Contamination View; 7.5 Initial Attempts to Avoid Skepticism; 7.6 Incorporation and Epistemic Luck; 7.7 The Information Effect; 7.8 Avoiding Skepticism; 8 Metamemory and the Source Problem; 8.1 The Source Problem; 8.2 Metacognitive Belief-Producing Systems; 8.3 Reliability in Metacognitive Systems; 8.4 Power and Speed in Metacognitive Systems; 8.5 The Source-Monitoring Framework; 8.6 Metacognition in Internalism and Externalism; 9 Metamemory and the Process Problem
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9.1 The Process Problem9.2 Do Agents Face the Process Problem?; 9.3 How Hard Is the Process Problem?; 9.4 Do Agents Need to Solve the Process Problem?; 9.5 Do Agents Solve the Process Problem?; 9.6 Formal Process-Monitoring Criteria; 9.7 Content-Based Process-Monitoring Criteria; 9.8 Phenomenal Process-Monitoring Criteria; 9.9 Toward a Process-Monitoring Framework; 9.10 Process Monitoring and Mindreading; IV The Evolution of Mental Time Travel; 10 The Puzzle of Conscious Episodic Memory; 10.1 When Did Episodic Memory Evolve?; 10.2 From Episodic-like Memory to Conscious Mental Time Travel
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10.3 Subjective Time
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English
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ISBN 0-262-03409-3
Sprache:
Englisch
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