Debates contemporâneos em filosofia da memória: uma breve introdução

Authors

  • César Schirmer dos Santos
  • André Sant'Anna
  • Kourken Michaelian
  • James Openshaw
  • Denis Perrin

Abstract

In this article we present, concisely and in Portuguese, some key elements of the main contemporary debates in the philosophy of memory. Our principal aim is to make these discussions more accessible to Portuguese-speaking readers, providing an important update to previous such efforts (SANT’ANNA & MICHAELIAN, 2019a). We begin by introducing the notion of mental time travel which lays the empirical basis for the methodology employed in recent work, before presenting two core debates. First, the debate between causalists and simulationists about the correct philosophical theory of remembering (§2). Second, the debate between continuists and discontinuists concerning the relationship between remembering and certain forms of imagining (in particular, episodic future thought) (§3). In the second part of the paper, we introduce and explore two growing topics of discussion: the nature of the feeling of pastness distinctive of episodic memory (§4), and meta-level issues concerning the very character of controversies explored in the first part of the paper (§5).

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Published

2024-12-27