This paper clarifies and then indicates a conflict between, on the one hand, influential and longstanding ideas in the epistemology of imagination and, on the other, an emerging view of the accuracy c...

Recollections of our personal past are often impressionistic, not so much for lack of detail but for a certain generality of subject matter. If you’ve made a journey many times, you ...

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Asst. Prof. Openshaw's principal interests are in philosophy of mind/cognitive science.

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Recent philosophy of memory tends to treat confabulation as a distinctive type of representational error, marked by reference failure, often via direct analogy with the traditional conception of senso...

The Philosophy of Memory Organization

The Philosophy of Memory Organization

This topical collection brings together papers that address memory and aboutness. Focal points of the contributions concern relationships between episodic memory, reference (or singular thought), the ...

The paper argues for a non-disjunctivist account of reference in episodic memory. Our account provides a uniform theory of reference for episodic memories that root in veridical and non-veridical expe...

Philosophy of Memory Organization

One may not only represent the same objects of one’s past, but also represent them as the same objects across time. I call this phenomenon “Remembering as the Same” (RaS). In this article, I aim to br...

James Openshaw (Nanyang Technological University)

The identification of memory engrams remains a methodological obstacle in neuroscience if they are to play the explanatory role ascribed to them by engram theory. I tackle the problem of specificit...

José Carlos Camillo

Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...

This is the submission form for Philosophy of Memory Early Career Conference (IPM 4.5). Abstracts must be anonymized and no longer than 500 words. Contact: IPM4.5 organizing committee (issuesinphilom...