Johannes Mahr (Harvard University)
What is the function of episodic memory?
29.10.2020, 16:15-17:45 CET (UTC+01:00)
Online Lecture via zoom
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Abstract:
Accounts of episodic memory function differ according to whether they target ‘memory’ or ‘remembering’. While ‘memory’ refers to the capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information (a ‘preservative’, ‘diachronic’ activity), ‘remembering’ describes the psychological activity of generating a representation about the past in the present (a ‘generative’, ‘synchronic’ activity). Based on this distinction, I will argue that an account of episodic memory function needs to be an account of the function of ‘remembering’ rather than ‘memory’. Such an account, however, requires us to proceed from ‘form’ to ‘function’; that is, it requires us to first specify the features of the kind of representations that remembering generates before we can ask why it might do so. After providing a characterization of the representational structure of remembering I will evaluate whether the most common views of episodic memory function can account for its form. It will turn out that neither preservationism (the idea that episodic memory must be for recalling the past), nor simulationism (the ideat that episodic memory must be for imagining the future) can adequately account for the representational structure of remembering. Instead, I will propose an alternative account according to which remembering functions to stabilize human communication about the past.
Katherine Puddifoot (Durham University)
Mnemonic injustice.
22.10.2020, 10:00-11:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)
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Peter Langland-Hassan (University of Cincinnati)
What sort of imagining might remembering be?
15.10.2020, 16:15-17:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)
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Jeffrey Andrew Barash (Université de Picardie)
Collective memory and the transformations of political myth in the era of the mass media
08.10.2020, 10:00-11:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)
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Zoom Conference
15.00-17.30 (CET), October 5-7, 2020
This conference will focus upon the extent to which phenomenological and enactive accounts of psychopathology are, or must be, ‘representation hungry’. Whilst explicitly anti-cognitivist phenomenological and enactive accounts of psychopathology are present in the literature, very little work has been carried out on discerning the extent to which they require the positing of representation. This is somewhat surprising, because ‘representation hungry’ cognition (thought, imagery, hallucination) plays a prominent role in most psychopathologies. The aim of the conference is to fill this gap by determining whether the concept “representation” is helpful, harmful, or irrelevant to understanding (phenomenological and enactive accounts of) psychopathology.
Participation in the conference is free, but please do e-mail Adrian Downey (a.downey@sussex.ac.uk) in order to register for the conference and so receive the Zoom Meeting ID and password.
Speakers
Sanneke de Haan (Tilburg University)
Adrian Downey (Ruhr Universitӓt Bochum)
Regina Fabry (Ruhr Universitӓt Bochum)
Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis)
Annemarie Kalis (Utrecht University)
Julian Kiverstein (University of Amsterdam)
Further Information
www.rub.de/philosophy/scalingup
Organisation
Adrian Downey and Tobias Schlicht
Institute for Philosophy II
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
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Platform and Registration
The event will be held using the Zoom platform over four consecutive weeks.
We would like to ask for registration before the event at the following email address:
alfredo-vernazzani@daad-alumni.de
Schedule
CET (i.e. Berlin\Amsterdam timezone)
12 JUNE
15:15 – 16:15 Alexander Miller Tate (KCL)
Title: Explaining agential pathology in clinical depression
16:15 – 17:15 Roy Dings (RUB)
Title: Meaningful affordances
17:15 – 18:15 Keynote: Sanneke de Haan (Tilburg)
Title: Is it me or my disorder? Relational authenticity in psychiatry
19 JUNE
15:15 – 16:15 Irena Dajić (Vienna)
Title: The Efficacy of Delusional Belief
16:15 – 17:15 Francesco Marchi (RUB)
Title: Spinozan Self-deception
26 JUNE
15:15 – 16:15 Michelle Liu (Hertfordshire)
Title: The Concept of Pain
16:15 – 17:15 Guido Robin Löhr (RUB)
Title: TBA
3 JULY
15:15 – 16:15 Sofiia Rappe (LMU)
Title: Thinking about Thought (and Predictive Processing)
16:15 – 17:15 Nina Poth (RUB)
Title: Predictive Processing as a unifying theory. In what sense?
17:15 – 18:15 Keynote: Rob Rupert(Boulder)
Title: Self-Knowledge as a Subpersonal Phenomenon
