16.02.2021 – 18.02.2021 (online, via conference platform “Whova”) Organized by: Research unit FOR 2812 “Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory” Abstract Episodic memories are widely regarded as memories of personally experienced events. Early concepts about episodic memory were based on the storage model, according to which experiential content is preserved in memory and later retrieved. However, overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that the content of episodic… » read more

Albert Newen & Tobias Starzak (Philosophy, Bochum) 09.02.2021, 14.00 – 15.30 (online via zoom) Login details for zoom: Zoom-Link: (CORRECTED) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85078567791?pwd=YjVmSEZzV3RmamdmWVhnTWgwUHY0UT09 Meeting-ID: 850 7856 7791 Kenncode: Vg2yLP

Diane Pecher (Psychology, Rotterdam) 05.02.2021, 14.00 (online via zoom) Login details for zoom: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/j/99840180341?pwd=anNRSk9WakRLd01tR1ZuMnBiaUlwQT09 Meeting ID: 998 4018 0341 Passcode:  Fb852v On 5.02.21 at 2:00 PM

Carlos Montemayor (San Francisco State University) Transactional collective memory. 04.02.2021, 16:15-17:45 CET (UTC+01:00). Online Lecture via zoom. Login information: Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82970505769?pwd=NGpHL3VHUUg0bktTbnBIT2kxMWVYZz09 Meeting ID: 829 7050 5769 Password: 8rraW0 Abstract: In previous work, I argued that the distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness plays a normative role in memory. Memories that are episodically recalled in order to act, decide, and plan are not necessarily phenomenally conscious, and they play a truth-conducive… » read more

Sven Bernecker (Universität zu Köln) The moral excusability of forgetting. 28.01.2021, 10:00-11:30 CET (UTC+01:00). Online Lecture via zoom. Login information: Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82970505769?pwd=NGpHL3VHUUg0bktTbnBIT2kxMWVYZz09 Meeting ID: 829 7050 5769 Password: 8rraW0 Abstract: Does moral ignorance due to forgetting exculpate wrongdoing? Could an agent be blamelessly ignorant of, say, the fact that one ought to be tolerant of differences; or would such an ignorance always imply a lack of good will? I argue… » read more

Markus Werning and Kristina Liefke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main/Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Remembering dreams: The problem of reference in memories of non-veridical experiences. 21.01.2021, 16:15-17:45 CET (UTC+01:00). Online Lecture via zoom. Login information: Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82970505769?pwd=NGpHL3VHUUg0bktTbnBIT2kxMWVYZz09 Meeting ID: 829 7050 5769 Password: 8rraW0 Abstract: Episodic memories are widely assumed to be factive: Saying that somebody remembers something presupposes that the ascribed mnemonic content is true and the descriptions used to… » read more