Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination

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Table of Contents
Note on Contributors
Introduction
	PART 1: Memory and Imagination: Ontological Questions
	PART 2: Memory, Imagination, Justification, and Perspective
	PART 3: Memory, Imagination, Skills, and Abilities
	PART 4: Memory, Imagination, and Emotion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Part I: Memory and Imagination: Ontological Questions
	Chapter 1: Remembering and Imagining: The Attitudinal Continuity
		1 Introduction: Remembering as a Mental Attitude
		2 The Explanatory Role of Attitudes
		3 Understanding Remembering as an Attitude: First Steps
		4 The Binary Approach to the Attitude of Remembering
		5 Coninuism versus Discontinuism in Attitudinal Accounts of Remembering
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2: Memory and Imagination, Minds and Worlds
		1 Introduction
		2 Directions of Fit
		3 Episodic Memory and Direction of Fit
		4 Experiential Imagination and Direction of Fit
		5 Directions of Fit and the (Dis)Continuism Debate
		6 Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: Imagining the Actual vs. Possible Future: An Argument for Discontinuism of Collective Mental Time Travel
		1 Introduction
		2 On the Modal Difference between Memory and Future-Directed Imagination
		3 Collective Memory as Shared Memory: An Argument for Collective Discontinuism
		4 Is Collective Future-Directed Imagination Shared Imagination? Three Rival Analyses
		5 Conclusion and Outlook
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 4: If Remembering Is Imagining, Then What Is Forgetting?
		1 Introduction: Simulationism and Forgetting
		2 Retrieval Vagueness
		3 Defining Forgetting
		4 Mechanisms of Forgetting
		5 The Extent of Forgetting
		6 Conclusion: Simulationism and Infantile Amnesia
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5: Relationism about Memory?
		1 Types of Memory and Relationism
		2 Two Forms of Relationism and the Problems They Face
		3 Problems for Non-representational Relationism about Particular Sensuous Memory
		4 Representational Relationism and the Motivations for Relationism
			4.1 Epistemological Authority of Particular Sensuous Memory
				4.1.1 Narrative and Past Familiarity
				4.1.2 Mode of Awareness
				4.1.3 Representation of Particular Experience
				4.1.4 Reflexive Content
				4.1.5 Activation Routines as Representational Properties
			4.2 Memory Demonstratives
			4.3 Implications for the Continuity between Sensuous Memory and Imagination
		5 Concluding Remarks
		References
Part 2: Memory, Imagination, Justification, and Perspective
	Chapter 6: On the Putative Epistemic Generativity of Memory and Imagination
		1 Introduction
		2 APG
		3 Epistemic Generativity and Epistemic Preservativity
		4 Epistemically Generative Memory?
			4.1 The First Horn: No Justification
				4.1.1 Imagination Inflation
				4.1.2 Recombination-Based Memory Beliefs
			4.2 The Second Horn: No Generative Justification
				4.2.1 Boundary Extension
				4.2.2 Perspectival Shift
				4.2.3 Associative Memory
				4.2.4 Testimonial Incorporation
		5 Coda: Epistemically Generative Imagination?
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7: Imagining in Remembering from the Outside
		1 Introduction
		2 A Challenge for Experiential Accounts of Imagination
		3 Observer Memories and Mental Imagery
		4 Observer Memories, Sensory Imagination, and Thin Selves
		5 Three-Term Relation Accounts and Unoccupied Perspectives
		6 Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: Constructing a Wider View on Memory: Beyond the Dichotomy of Field and Observer Perspectives
		1 Introduction
		2 Memory Perspective in Recent Philosophical Debates
		3 Empirical Literature on Memory Perspective
			3.1 Vision
			3.2 Agency
			3.3 Emotions
			3.4 Self and Social Environment
			3.5 Preliminary Conclusion
		4 Memory Perspective as the Result of Scenario Construction
		5 A New Conception of Memory Perspective
		6 Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
Part 3: Memory, Imagination, Skills, and Abilities
	Chapter 9: Memory, Imagination, and Skill
		1 Memory Training
		2 Imagination Training
		3 Drawing Connections
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 10: Remembering and Imagining as Agential Powers
		1 Powers
		2 Imagining and Remembering as Powers
		3 Two Species?
		4 Imagining and Memory as Single Powers
		5 Powers to ….?
		6 The Specificity of Memory
		7 Towards an Account of Derivation
		8 Nested Powers
		9 Some Upshots for Method
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 11: The Method of Loci and the Role of Constructive Imagination in Remembering
		1 Introduction
		2 Mnemonics and the MoL
		3 The MoL as a Way of Remembering
		4 The MoL as Constructive Imagination
		5 Remembering and Constructive Imagining
		6 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part 4: Memory, Imagination, and Emotion
	Chapter 12: Imagine What It Feels Like
		1 Introduction
		2 Experientially Imagining Emotions: A Question of Content and Mode
		3 Emotional Experiences, Phenomenal Properties, and Perspectives
		4 Perspective-Shifting, Imagining Feeling Emotions, and Emotion-Like Imaginings
		5 Imagining Feeling Emotions Previously Felt
		6 Imagining Feeling Emotions Not Previously Felt
		7 Concluding Remarks
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 13: A Family-Resemblance Approach to Nostalgia
		1 Introduction
		2 Arguing against a Common Core
			2.1 Common Cognitive Basis
			2.2 Directedness and Triggers
			2.3 Common Emotions
		3 In Favour of Family Resemblances
			3.1 Semantic Openness as a Test for Family-Resemblance Terms
			3.2 Nostalgia and Semantic Openness
		4 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 14: Affective Selves, Streams of Consciousness, and Mental Time Travels
		1 Memory, Traits, and Identity
		2 Character and Personality Traits
		3 The Affective Self and Its Function
		4 Emotions in the Stream of Consciousness
		5 In Memory with Affect
		6 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Index