Philosophy
István Aranyosi (Bilkent University Ankara)
Remembering, old school
There has been a rise in interest in the last few years in empirically informed discussion of philosophical issues related to memory. Classical conceptual analysis and the old-fashioned naïve realist view of remembering as a direct relation to past events, which can be traced back to Thomas Reid's work, fell out of favour. In this talk, I will offer two arguments for this old school view and point out that it fares better than alternatives in dealing with issues of modal force and of externalist referential semantics.